Carla Accardi's 'Lenzuoli' at Museo Correr, Venice

Museo Correr in Venice presents 'Carla Accardi. Gli anni Settanta: i lenzuoli,' curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto in collaboration with the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo in Rome. The exhibition, timed near the centenary of Accardi's birth (1924–2014), features a series of cotton sheets painted with fabric dye, rarely shown together, installed in the Sala delle Quattro Porte. These works, produced from the 1970s onward, emphasize a primary syntax of geometric signs and monochrome fields. Accardi, a key figure in postwar Italian abstraction, co-founded Gruppo Forma 1 in 1947 with Consagra, Attardi, Dorazio, Perilli, and Turcato. She later developed her own sign-based poetics, influenced by Arab-Byzantine art and Matisse, and moved from black-and-white Negativi to vibrant color integrations. In the 1960s, she began using transparent plastic sheets (sicofil) to free signs into space. The exhibition also includes later works like 'Scultura trasparente' (2002) and 'Oggetto trasparente' (2001).