Carmengloria Morales - Rome, London, Milan, New York, Sermugnano
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).
A full colour catalogue accompanied this exhibition, with text by Daniel Sturgis
Carmengloria Morales Dittico R 70-5-7 1970, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (70 x 2) x 140 cm; Dittico R 70-7-8 1970, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (70 x 2) x 140 cm
Carmengloria Morales Dittico R 71-12-13 1971, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (140 x 2) x 140 cm
Carmengloria Morales Dittico R 75-11-1 1975, enable and oil on canvas and empty canvas, (50 x 2) x 200 cm
Carmengloria Morales Dittico M 82-11-3, Antifona 1982, metal pigments, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (110 x 2) x 220 cm; Tondo NY 98-1-1 1998, metal pigments, acrylic on canvas; Dittico M 85-9-1, Dafne 1985, metal pigments, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (110 x 2) x
Carmengloria Morales Dittico M 82-11-3, Antifona 1982, metal pigments, acrylic on canvas and empty canvas, (110 x 2) x 220 cm
