Carla Accardi and Dadamaino

"Two emblematic figures of the post-war Italian cultural scene, Carla Accardi and Dadamaino share a common desire to create new languages from unexplored codes of expression. Each artist invented her own indecipherable alphabet of quasi-calligraphic signs, repeated almost obsessionally on a variety of supports, most notably on plastic... Carla Accardi and Dadamaino: between sign and transparency. Two Italian artists at the edge of abstraction of abstration is part of the research programme and critical examination of the work of the key representatives of the Italian cultural scene of the 1950s and 1960s that Tornabuoni Gallery has undertaken since its ainauguration. The exhibition proposes an original dialogue of signs and materials between two women who left a mark on their time and influenced several generations of artists"--Preface.