UNIQUE IN EVERY WAY
I had never heard of Carol Rama but she was on my list of exhibitions to see. Strangely enough, Lüpertz had not been. The latter had taken me a good hour and a half to digest and I wasn’t too sure if I could cope with Carol Roma at once. It was Saturday and people were beginning to pour into the museum. I would give it a go and then think about a belated lunch.
Strange as it may seem I started this exhibition without intending to do so from the end of her career. « The Passion according to Carol Rama » End? Well not quite as Carol Rama is still working and living in Turin. She is 99 (born in 1916). I watched a relatively recent video on her life and found that even for me, her outspoken eccentricity was just a little bit too much. She is supposedly a solitary self taught artist. A reactionary to say the least and although she has mixed with many of the great names over her life and alongside the major avant-garde movements of the 20th century, Expressionism, Surrealism, Concre