The British School at Rome is delighted to present the exhibition Carmengloria Morales: Rome, London, Milan, New York, Sermugnano curated by Daniel Sturgis.
Carmengloria Morales: Rome, London, Milan, New York, Sermugnano, is an exhibition dedicated to the Chilean born artist Carmengloria Morales. Morales is celebrated as one of the most significant abstract painters working in Italy today. Although fiercely independent and avoiding all labels Morales was the only woman associated with Italian Analytical Painting movement of the mid 1970s, as well as an inaugural participant in the New York Radical Painting group of the 1980s. This exhibition traces Morales’s career through work she made in the five principal locations where she has set up her studio Rome, London, Milan, New York, and Sermugnano. The selection contains paintings and works on paper ranging from 1963 to the present, and includes important examples of her Dittico (Dyptych) and Tondo works.
Carmengloria Morales was born in Santiago, Chile in 1942 and moved to Italy in 1953. Over the years she has had studios in Milan, Rome, London, New York and Sermugnano, near Viterbo. Her first solo exhibitions were at Feltrinelli and in Arco d’Alibert, both in Rome (1965, 1967). She participated in the Rome Quadriennale (1977) and documenta 6 Kassel (1977). Morales’s work was included in the main exhibitions associated with Italian Analytical Painting and European New Painting, such as Un futuro possibile – Nuova Pittura, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (1973); Geplante Malerei, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster (1974); Concerning Painting, various Dutch Museums (1975-6); Colori della Pittura – Una situazione europea, Istituto Italo-Latino Americano Rome (1976); Bilder ohne Bilder, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn (1977); and Abstraction Analytique – Fractures du Monochrome Aujourd’hui en Europe, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1978). She participated in the founding exhibition of the New York Radical Painting group in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1984). More recent museum exhibitions include: Abstrakt, Der Deutsche Künstlerbund in Dresden, Militärhistorisches Museum, Dresden (1993); Karo Dame, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau (1995); New York Visions, Reading Public Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania (1998); Unique Act, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2008); Un’idea di pittura. Astrazione analitica in Italia 1972-1976, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Udine (2015); Radical Painting all’interno della mostra Olivier Mosset, MAMCO, Genève (2020); Astratte, Donne e astrazione in Italia 1930-2000, Villa Olmo, Como (2022). She is represented by Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan.
Daniel Sturgis is a British artist and professor of painting at the University of the Arts London. Sturgis’s work is regularly exhibited in the UK and internationally, featuring at museums such as the Musée des Beaux-arts de Cambrai, Camden Art Centre (London), Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas), The Pier Art Centre, (Stromness, Orkney) and Turner Contemporary (Margate). His curated projects include Bauhaus: Utopia in Crisis, Camberwell Space (2019), The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St Ives (2011), Daniel Buren’s Voile/Toile – Toile/Voile, Wordsworth Trust (2005) and Jeremy Moon – a retrospective, Kettle’s Yard (2001). He is a founding editor of the Journal for Contemporary Painting, a specialist selector for Phaidon’s painting anthology Vitamin P3 and has written for Art Monthly, Tate Papers, Burlington Magazine and Texte zur Kunst.
A fully illustrated catalogue will be produced to accompany the exhibition with a text by Daniel Sturgis.
The exhibition has been organised in partnership with Luca Tommasi – Arte Contemporanea and the University of the Arts London.
An international symposium “Crossing Over: Women Artists, Abstraction, and Travel in Postwar Rome (1950s-1970s)” will take place during the course of the exhibition at the British School at Rome on 11 December 2024. The symposium will lead to an edited volume, co-edited by the symposium organiser Dr Jelena Stojković, Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University and Dr Daniel Sturgis, professor in painting, University of the Arts London.
Special thanks go to Marta Pellerini for managing the exhibition.
The event will be held in-person. No registration is required to attend.
