Carla Horat (1938) - Segni - Colore

Splendid abstract painting, large in size with engaging, almost hypnotic colors, by painter Carla Horat (1938), measuring 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, titled Markings-Color, from 1992. The painting will be shipped with a catalog about her, complimentary, insured shipment.

Carla Horat has exhibited in the most important museums and pinacotecas in the world: Rome, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Barcelona, New York, Alexandria (Egypt), Venice, Switzerland, Mexico City, etc., etc..

Minds most significant in the world of culture and art of the last century write about her: Gesualdo Bufalino, Enrico Baj, Leonardo Sciascia, Guttuso, Antonello Trombadori, etc., 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 lived 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 of Graphics in Venice, where she has led etching and non-toxic incising techniques courses. She has directed printmaking and painting workshops at several foreign universities: Rio de Janeiro (PUC University), Mexico City (UNAM University), Merida (Yucatan, Marista University), Barcelona (Faculty of Fine Arts). Since 2005 she has dedicated 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 are numerous in Italy and abroad, particularly in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, including: Swiss National Bank, Chiasso, 1978; “Boggian” Hall, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona, 1980; Villa Malpensata, Lugano (Switzerland), 1982; Art Gallery at B, Palermo, 1983; Il Mosaico Gallery, 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, Department of Art, School of Fine Arts, Des Moines (USA), 1989; Multicultural Cultural Center, Bagnacavallo (RA), 1990; Villa Malfitano, Palermo, 1991; Musée Véra, Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Paris), 1992; The Artist’s Book, Segno Grafico Gallery, Palermo, 1995; Subpressure - 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-Roma, Villa Renatico Martini, Monsummano Terme (Pistoia), 1998; XIV International Prize for Engraving, Biella, 1999; Spazio 9, Turin, 2000; Biennale of Italian Engraving, Campobasso, 2000. etc., etc.