Artist: Carla Accardi Title: The search for the color (Blue) Copy: 35/100 Technique: Etching aquatint Dimensions with frame: 80 x 60 cm Carla Accardi (Trapani 1924 - Rome 2014) was one of the first Italian women to dedicate herself to abstract art and to be known abroad. Initially she was part of the Forma 1 collective, and then continued both alone and occasionally with the MAC - Movimento Arte Concreta group. Her artistic research is based on two main cornerstones: abstractionism intended as a reduction to the essential of forms and signs, eliminating any symbolic or allegorical meaning of the composition, and the commitment to demonstrating that female artists did not necessarily have to produce a delicate art in terms of themes and colors due to their gender but on the contrary they had to be free to represent strong messages, like their male colleagues. For this reason, Accardi's name is often linked to activism in favor of feminist ideas. Accardi used canvas, painted with unusual materials, such as casein, and created a series of installations that continue and expand the work itself in space, demonstrating that working with one technique does not exclude another.