(Trapani 1924–2014 Rome)
Fonda notte (side a.) | Pieno giorno (side b.), 1986, signed on side a., wooden screen, three elements, vinyl on wood, painted on both sides, 170 x 180 cm

This work is accompanied by a photo certificate signed by the artist

The work is registered in the Archivio Accardi Sanfilippo, Rome

Provenance:
Chierici Collection, San Polo di Reggio Emilia (acquired directly from the artist)
European Private Collection

Exhibited:
Rome, Il Paravento, Galleria Il Millennio, June 1986, exh. cat. with ill.
Gibellina, Carla Accardi. Grandi dipinti 1965-1990, Museo Civico, Case di Stefano, 11 August – 30 September 1990, exh. cat. pp. 40-41 with ill.

Literature:
G. Chierici ed. Accardi 1981–1991, Il Disegno italiano, Edizioni La Scaletta, San Polo di Reggio Emilia 1994, pp. 16–17 with ill.
Germano Celant, Carla Accardi, Edizioni Charta, 1999, p. 405, n. 1986 9 (arch no. 955 a/b) with ill.

[…] Accardi’s painting has moved even closer to a plastic magma capable of continual mutations.
Even if stretched out, it is a continual process of becoming that precipitates onto canvas, but also onto walls and floors, tiles and vases, books and theatre curtains, so as to unite her script to the body of thing and settings. A continual return to the calling of an antipainting (“I have always used painting as an expression of non-painting; it is a desire for contradiction”) that instead becomes a form of inquiry into the real world.
G. Celant, Carla Accardi. La vita delle forme, Silvana Editoriale- Zerynthia 2011, p.15

With reference to the work Fonda notte | Pieno giorno offered here
"The work is a fantasy that offers itself publicly, pointing to the presence of beauty, imagination and the possibility of the joy that can be found in art. It is a presence that recalls, both through the unconscious and through the cultural heritage of history, an ancient dream of refined pleasures, in a distant age when art and nature were able to not be in conflict".
1981, Carla Accardi