Carla Horat (1938) - Tosca

Splendid masterwork, with the engaging and emotional colors, by artist Carla Horat (1938) titled TOSCA, 120 cm x 100, from 1999 with inventory number 3. The painting will be shipped with insurance and a catalog about her.

The Painter has exhibited in the most important museums and picture galleries around the world: Venice, Paris, USA, Tokyo, Switzerland, Rio de Janeiro, New York, Seoul, Barcelona, etc.. People who write about her include the most significant minds in the world of art and culture of the last century: Leonardo Sciascia, Vincenzo Consolo, Gesualdo Bufalino, Antonello Trombadori, etc...

Daughter of an artist (her father Theo is a well-known Swiss watercolorist), at five she moves to Ticino and later to Verona, where she graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1981 she has resided in Palermo, where she obtained the chair of printmaking techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts. She has taught at the International School of Graphics in Venice and since 1986 also at the International Center for Graphics in Venice, where she has led courses in burin and non-toxic intaglio techniques. She has directed printmaking and painting workshops at several foreign universities: Rio de Janeiro (PUC University), Mexico City (UNAM University), Merida (Yucatan, Marist University), Barcelona (Faculty of Fine Arts). Since 2005 she has devoted herself in a particular way 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, Monaco, Nuremberg, Bremen. Among those who have written about her are Antonello Trombadori, Leonardo Sciascia, Gesualdo Bufalino, Vincenzo Consolo, Enrico Baj.

She has had numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, in particular in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, including: Swiss National Bank, Chiasso, 1978; Boggian Hall, Museo di Castevecchio, Verona, 1980; Villa Malpensata, Lugano (Switzerland), 1982; Gallery of Art at B, Palermo, 1983; Gallery Il Mosaico, Chiasso (Switzerland), 1985; PUC University (where she also held a burin workshop), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1988; Personal exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute, Alexandria, Egypt, 1989; Drake University, Department of Art School of Fine Arts, Yowa (USA), 1989; Multi-Purpose Cultural Center, Bagnocavallo (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; The 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; Italian Engraving Biennale, Campobasso, 2000."