“From Woman to Woman.” Exhibiting Genealogy – Carla Accardi’s Origine, 1976
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Women collectives, Artists as Curators, Genealogy, Solo Exhibition, Installation, Photography, Sicofoil, Feminism, HistoricizationAbstract
This paper reconsiders the so far undervalued importance of Carla Accardi’s solo exhibition Origine, mounted in May 1976 at a women’s cooperative co-founded by the artist at Via Beato Angelico 18 in Rome. At its all but neutral location, I argue, the self-curated exhibition, encompassing a larger display of Accardi’s work, rendered visible the private and political entanglement of her artistic practice, significantly expanding its potential meaning. In engaging with the exhibition’s precarious documentation and critical coverage, I will demonstrate that on this occasion, rather than providing a conventional overview of stylistic developments, Accardi temporarily staged, in Foucault’s sense, a context of origin for her becoming in the present: as woman and artist.##submission.downloads##
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- Carla Accardi, Origine at Cooperativa Beato Angelico, Rome, 1976, installation view, photo. Fondo Suzanne Santoro, Archivia, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome. (English)
- Carla Accardi in front of her work Origine at Cooperativa Beato Angelico (detail), 1976, photo. Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome. (English)
- Cooperativa Beato Angelico’s declaration of intent, printed paper, 1976. Fondo Suzanne Santoro, Archivia, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome. (English)
- Carlo Accardi, Origine at Cooperativa Beato Angelico (detail), 1976, photo. Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome. (English)
- Carlo Accardi, Origine at Cooperativa Beato Angelico (detail), 1976, photo. Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome. (English)
- Carla Accardi, Trasparente, 1975, sicofoil on wood, 130 x 90 cm, collection from the artist, Rome. Photo from Fondo Suzanne Santoro, Archivia, Casa Internazionale delle Donne, Rome. (English)
- Luca Longagnani, Axonometric rendering of Carla Accardi’s exhibition Origine at Via Beato Angelico 18 in Rome, 2020, rendering created specifically for this article. (English)
- Carla Accardi, Origine (1976) re-installation at Cose quasi mai viste Origine (Things almost never seen before)(detail), 2007, photo. Centro di documentazione della ricerca artistica contemporanea “Luigi di Sarro”, Rome. (English)
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