Carol Rama is one of the most impressive artists of her generation. At the 2003 Venice Biennale, the now eighty-six-yeaeold painter from Turin was awarded aGolden Lion for her life’s work.
Carol Rama achieved notoriety chiefly for the surreal-erotic aquarelles of her early career. With these expressive pictures created from 1937 onward, she took a radical, taboo-breaking stance-at barely twenty years of age. She anticipated much of what later marked the debate over the body and sexuality in the sixties and seventies.
