Carla Accardi was an Italian painter and a key figure in postwar Italian abstraction. Associated with the Forma 1 group, she explored a grammar of signs—curving strokes, glyph-like shapes—arranged in dense rhythmic fields.
In the 1960s Accardi began painting on sicofoil, a transparent plastic that allowed light to pass through the work. These pieces blur boundaries between painting and environment, turning gesture into spatial event.
Her color evolved from stark black-and-white to vivid oranges, greens, and pinks, emphasizing optical rhythm.
Carla Accardi was an Italian abstract artist known for her gestural sign-based paintings and pioneering use of transparent materials.
Carla Accardi was an Italian abstract artist known for sign-based compositions and innovative use of transparent plastics that expanded painting into space.
