Carla Horat (1938) - Segni - Colore

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

Carla Horat has exhibited in the world's most important museums and galleries: Rome, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Barcelona, New York, Alexandria, Venice, Switzerland, Mexico City, etc.

Some of the most significant minds in the world of culture and art of the last century have written about her: Gesualdo Bufalino, Enrico Baj, Leonardo Sciascia, Renato Guttuso, Antonello Trombadori, etc.

Daughter of artists (her father Theo was 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 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 taught 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), Merida (Yucatán, Marista University), Barcelona (Faculty of Fine Arts). Since 2005 she has particularly dedicated herself 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.

She has had numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, particularly in Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, the United States, Africa and Asia, including: National Bank of Switzerland, Chiasso, 1978; “Boggian” Room, Museo di Castlevecchio, 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, Iowa (USA), 1989; Polivalente 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; 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. etc etc.