Index Code:

ART-CHR-ACC

Orgin:

Italy

Field Notes:

Painted marks on plastic and canvas behave like signs floating within taut color frames

Defining Moment:

The sicofoil works where calligraphic strokes hover in clear support turning painting into a luminous structural membrane

Carla Accardi

(

1924–2014

)

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Accardi built a world where transparent materials hold chromatic lines — surfaces glowing with rhythmic sign-like forms.

Her works transform language into abstraction.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Carla Accardi’s work, this approach appears where color and sign systems are structured through surface experimentation.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Carla Accardi’s work, this approach appears where color and sign systems are structured through surface experimentation.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Structure

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Art

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Abstraction

Visual structure is distilled into autonomous, non-representational form.

Carla Accardi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

In Dialogue

Carla Accardi

Structural Focus

Process as Form

Position

Process as Form

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue