Carol Rama: From Obscenity to the Canon

Carol Rama: From Obscenity to the Canon

Rama, who died in 2015, was snubbed by the artworld for decades. Now, at Kunstmuseum Bern, her grotesque, ungovernable iconography finds the limelight Carol Rama died in 2015 at the age of ninety-seven, having been snubbed for many decades by the art establishment and then belatedly accepted into it. A Rebel of Modernity showcases the vicissitudes of the Turin-born artist’s career from the 1940s onwards and her periodic stylistic reinvention, fo…