Carla Horat (1938) - Segni - Colore

Splendid painting, abstract, large-scale and with engaging colors, almost hypnotic, by the painter Carla Horat (1938), dimensions 100 x 120 cm, oil on canvas, titled Signs- Color, from 1992.
The painting will be shipped with a catalog about it, as a courtesy, insured shipment.

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

People with 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, Guttuso, 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 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 run classes in burin and non-toxic intaglio techniques. She has directed engraving and painting workshops at several 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 especially 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 others, Antonello Trombadori, Leonardo Sciascia, Gesualdo Bufalino, Vincenzo Consolo, Enrico Baj have written about her.

Her exhibitions in Italy and abroad are numerous, 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; Galleria d’Arte al B, Palermo, 1983; Galleria Il Mosaico, Chiasso (Switzerland), 1985; University PUC (where she also taught 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, Iowa (USA), 1989; Centro Culturale Polivalente, 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; XIV International Prize for Engraving, Biella, 1999; Spazio 9, Turin, 2000; Biennale of Italian Engraving, Campobasso, 2000. etc etc.