Carla Horat (1938) - Tosca

Splendid masterpiece, with evocative and moving 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 art galleries around 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 have written about her, including Leonardo Sciascia, Vincenzo Consolo, Gesualdo Bufalino, Antonello Trombadori, etc...

Daughter of art (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 Scuola Internazionale della Grafica in Venice and since 1986 also at the International Center of Grafica in Venice, where she held copperplate and non-toxic intaglio technique courses. She has directed engraving 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). From 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, especially in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, including the following: Swiss National Bank, Chiasso, 1978; Boggian Hall, Castevecchio Museum, 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 led a copperplate 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; Polivalent 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 - Etchings, Palazzo dei Benedetti, Cinisi - Palazzo Cataldi, Terrasini (Palermo), 1997; Palermo Paperworks prints from the Academy of Fine Arts, etchings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Italian Cultural Institute, Washington (USA), 1997; The Etching in Italian Artistic Institutions. Palermo-Rome, Villa Renatico Martini, Monsummano Terme (Pistoia), 1998; XIV International Prize for Engraving, Biella, 1999; Spazio 9, Turin, 2000; Italian Engraving Biennial, Campobasso, 2000."