Leonilde Carabba

LeoNilde Carabba, born in Monza on the 28th of November 1938, presently lives in Milan. LeoNilde's first works are refined rythmical compositions on a geometrical texture. In the Seventies LeoNilde was strongly involved in the Women's Movement and her work became free from geometrical motifs and more fluent - with motifs of seas, skies, trees, geological descriptions of the earth's crust on increasingly large canvases.

In 1982 she began to paint on wooden boards and moved to Bolinas, California, where she has remained for five years. Pierre Restany said of her work:

"You just need to pay some attention to the lyrical morphology of LeoNilde Carabba's language to understand the obvious fact that her painting is made with skin, blood and heart. By adopting this kind of language she demonstrates her complete unselfishness in meeting her fate".

In 1988 she was back again in Milan. In the last decade her work has become more refined and hinged on depth symbols, about which Riccardo Barletta wrote:

"Symbols of no time and no place, as they can be found in any age or culture. The Sacred Mountain, the Maze, the Sun, the Zigurath, the Pyramid, the Mandala. It is a sort ofdictionary where any word becomesthe Word"....

Solo Shows

1961 - Galleria Numero Firenze (Presentazione Poetica di Hsiao Chin)
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1961 - Galleria Il Fondaco Messina
1964 - Cenobio Visualit Milano (Testi di E. Bay, R. Crippa, Lucio Fontana) -
1964 - Libreria Feltrinelli Roma
Il quadro della settimana a cura di Topazia Alliata
1967 - Galleria Vismara Milano (Testo di Berto Morucchio)
1968 - Galleria Il Bilico Roma (Testo di Luciano Inga-Pin)
1969 - Studio LArco Macerata (Testo di G. Schnenberger e Lorenza Trucchi) -
1969 - Studio SM 13 Roma (Testo di Riccardo Barletta)
1969 - Galleria San Carlo Napoli (Testo di Italo Mussa)
1972 - Galleria Pilota Milano
1973 - Galleria Il Fondaco Messina
1973 - Galleria Fumagalli Bergamo (con Marco Magrini) -
1973 - Galleria UXA Novara
1973 - Galleria Pianella Cant (con Thea Vall)
1973 - Studio dArte Il Meridione Catanzaro (Testo di Domenico Cara)
La mostra, di cui esiste linvito, fu poi sospesa a causa dellalluvione.
1974 - Galleria La Torre Melzo (Testo di Alberto Veca) -
1974 - Staats und Universittsbibliothek, Hamburg (Testo di Aldo Passoni)...