Carol Rama Biography
Rama Carol (Turin, 1918-2015) Carol Rama is an autobiographical artist. In 1948 he participated for the first time in the Venice Biennale. In the 1950s he joined the Turin MAC (Concrete Art Movement) group. In the 1960s he combined the reality of used objects with his pictorial flair, creating paintings defined as "bricolages". In Turin the artist met important people, such as Casorati, Calvino, Mila, Galvano, Mollino. During his stay in Paris in 1970 and 1971 he met Andy Warhol and Man Ray and again in the 70s the artist hung, stretched and glued inner tubes, creating a living, pictorial material with a visual and tactile effect that was reminiscent of human anatomy. After meeting Lea Vergine he was present in the traveling exhibition on the great artists of the twentieth century "The other half of the avant-garde", in which he exhibited many works from the 30s and 40s. He subsequently returned to the figurative, and exhibited in numerous public exhibitions, at the Venice Biennale in 1993, at the collective exhibition “Inside the Visible” at the ICA in Boston, and at the anthology at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. In 2003 he obtained the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement during the 50th Venice Biennale.
