Carla Horat (1938) - Tosca

Splendid masterpiece, with 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 concerning it.

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

Daughter of an artist (her father Theo is a well-known Swiss watercolorist), at five years old 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 engraving 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 of Graphics in Venice, where she has led courses in burin and non-toxic intaglio techniques. She has directed engraving and painting workshops at various foreign universities: Rio de Janeiro (PUC University), Mexico City (UNAM), Merida (Yucatan, Marist 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 Antonello Trombadori, Leonardo Sciascia, Gesualdo Bufalino, Vincenzo Consolo, Enrico Baj.

Her exhibitions in Italy and abroad are numerous, particularly Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, including: Swiss National Bank, Chiasso, 1978; Boggian Room, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1980; Villa Malpensata, Lugano (Switzerland), 1982; Art Gallery at B, Palermo, 1983; Gallery Il Mosaico, Chiasso (Switzerland), 1985; PUC University (where she also held a burin workshop), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1988; Solo show at the Italian Cultural Institute, Alexandria, Egypt, 1989; Drake University, Art School of Fine Arts, Des Moines (USA), 1989; Multicultural Center, 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; Italian Engraving Biennial, Campobasso, 2000."