Carla Horat (1938) - Il flauto magico

Splendid, almost hypnotic painting by Carla Horat (1938), titled The Magic Flute, 100 x 120 cm, from 1990. Catalogued work. The piece will be shipped with insurance and a catalog pertaining to it.

The painter has exhibited in the world's most important museums and art galleries, Paris, Venice, Switzerland, the USA, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Egypt, Venice, Barcelona, etc..
Many of the world's most significant cultural and art minds have written about her, such as Enrico Baj, Vincenzo Consolo, Leonardo Sciascia, etc..

Daughter of an artist (her father Theo is a well-known Swiss watercolorist), at five she moved to Ticino and later to Verona, where she graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1981 she has resided in Palermo, where she holds the chair of printmaking techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has taught at the International School of Graphic Arts in Venice and since 1986 also at the International Center for Graphic Arts in Venice, where she has led courses in burin engraving and non-toxic intaglio techniques. She has directed engraving and painting workshops at several foreign universities: Rio de Janeiro (PUC University), Mexico City (UNAM), Merida (Yucatán, Marista University), Barcelona (Faculty of Fine Arts). Since 2005 she has devoted herself particularly to the Artist’s Book.

She has held numerous exhibitions, including in Venice, Palermo, Lugano, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, New York, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, Nuremberg, Bremen. Among those who have written about her are, among others, Antonello Trombadori, Leonardo Sciascia, Gesualdo Bufalino, Vincenzo Consolo, Enrico Baj.

Her numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, particularly in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, include: Swiss National Bank, Chiasso, 1978; Sala “Boggian,” Museo di Castelvechio, Verona, 1980; Villa Malpensata, Lugano (Switzerland), 1982; Galleria d’Arte al B, Palermo, 1983; Galleria Il Mosaico, Chiasso (Switzerland), 1985; PUC University (where she also conducted a burin workshop), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1988; Solo exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute, Alexandria, Egypt, 1989; Drake University, Department of Art School of Fine Arts, Des Moines (USA), 1989; Centro Culturale Polivalente, Bagnacavallo (RA), 1990; Villa Malfitano, Palermo, 1991; Musée Véra, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris), 1992; The Artist’s Book, Galleria Segno Grafico, Palermo, 1995; Sottopressione - Engravings, Palazzo dei Benedetti, Cinisi - Palazzo Cataldi, Terrasini (Palermo), 1997; Palermo Paperworks prints from the Academy of Fine Arts, engravings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington (USA), 1997; Engraving in Italian Artistic Institutions. Palermo-Rome, Villa Renatico Martini, Monsummano Terme (Pistoia), 1998; 14th International Prize for Engraving, Biella, 1999; Spazio 9, Turin, 2000; Biennale of Italian Engraving, Campobasso, 2000.