Carol Rama retrospective returns to Turin's GAM after European tour

The Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM) in Turin hosts a major retrospective of Carol Rama (1918-2015), returning after a year-long European tour that included stops at MACBA Barcelona, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, and IMMA Dublin. The exhibition is curated by an international team, a fact that has sparked local criticism, which the author dismisses as uninformed. Rama, a Turin native who worked from her attic on via Napione, was long overlooked but received the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2003, followed by a major survey at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudenga in 2004 curated by Guido Curto and designed by Corrado Levi and Cliostraat. The GAM show occupies the museum's underground spaces and is sponsored by Fondazione Sardi per l'arte, which funded the Italian edition of the catalogue. The author argues Rama's independent, non-aligned practice—comparable to Louise Bourgeois—deserves reinsertion into art history.