Carla Accardi: Writing with Colour

“Writing with Colour” reveals Carla Accardi‘s profound relationship with poetry. Intimate research, often not openly declared, brings to light the frequent relationship and dialogue that the artist had with the poets close to her.
The poems of Andrea Zanzotto, Valentino Zei Chen, Francesco Serrao, Bizhan Bassiri, and Daniele Pieroni were an inspiration to the artist, who used to write down in a small notebook the verses that most struck her attention.
The bibliographical reconstruction carried out with the Accardi Sanfilippo Archive and the curator of the exhibition, Lorenzo Benedetti, has revealed a number of works that, from the 1980s onwards, bear the title of some of the verses the artist jotted down in her diaries.