Carla Accardi's Red and Green, 1966
'Red and Green'
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Carla Accardi's new colors for Florence? One of AWA’s ‘protégés’ is Sicilian artist Carla Accardi—one of Italy’s foremost abstractionist working in the twentieth century. She is known for her dramatic, colorful markings, pointedly devoid of symbolism! Red and Green, the tempera-on-canvas work she painted in 1966, is a stunning example of how the Sicilian artist returned to using color after a period of focusing on paintings that emulated black and white photography. AWA restored this painting in 2014 and it has since been on show at Florence’s Twentieth-century Museum in Piazza Santa Maria Novella. Restorer Rossella Lari comments on the challenges of the restoration saying, ”Accardi’s colors are not ‘usual’—like her pure hot pink pigment that was applied with a spray nozzle not a brush. Try duplicating that!”