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“The most famous critic who wrote on Carol Rama described her as erotic and heretic. For me, what always interested me about her was less this idea of Rama as a character, but more Rama as someone who was contributing to the art of her time through her work.” — Flavia Frigeri
In the last several years, the work of artist Carol Rama has been receiving something of a well–deserved reassessment, not dissimilar to the recent exploding of interest in Hilma af Klint. As af Klint’s revitalization was sparked by a series of exhibitions culminating now at the Guggenheim in New York, Rama was also something of an outsider artist who was mostly pigeonholed and overlooked as such until recently, including a groundbreaking retrospective at the New Museum in 2017. Now, Rama is featured in a critically-acclaimed exhibition at Lévy Gorvy in New York, Eye of Eyes, through April 10, 2019. This video gives us a look around the exhibition, and we hear curator Flavia Frigeri and Dominique Lévy speak about what made Rama’s work so radical in her time, and still so relevant today.
Video produced by our friends at SandenWolff.
