Artist: Carla Accardi Title: Untitled Copy: XIV / XXX Technique: Lithograph Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm Dimensions with frame: 55.5 x 75 cm Carla Accardi (Trapani 1924 - Rome 2014) was one of the first Italian women to dedicate herself to abstraction and to be known abroad. Initially, she was part of the Forma 1 collective, and then continued both alone and occasionally with the MAC group - Movimento Arte Concreta (Concrete Art Movement). Her artistic research is based on two main cornerstones: abstraction intended as the reduction of forms and signs to the essential, eliminating any symbolic or allegorical meaning of the composition, and the commitment to demonstrating that female artists did not necessarily have to produce delicate art in terms of themes and colors due to their gender, but on the contrary, they should be free to represent strong messages, on par with 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 has created a series of installations that continue and expand the work itself in space, demonstrating that working with one technique does not exclude another.