For years, she has devoted her work to painting, seeking the meaning of her work in the material rather than in the image depicted. The subject is painting and its evolution, in a technical exploration that seeks to evoke the visual and sensory logic of nature rather than directly represent the visual image we perceive. The use of paint is free, focused on the changing events. In her frottages, for example, Linda Carrara seeks to capture the form of the landscape directly from the landscape itself, tracing its forms by contact. The negative of reality imprinted on the canvas that for a moment was the skin of reality. The intention is clear, but the final event is not. This is true of many of the artist's other works too, in which painting is taken to extremes and left free to take on the forms that occur. In this sense, the images presented by Carrara do not coincide with the things they describe, and the painting’s material becomes a field of research into the essence of events.
Linda Carrara (Bergamo, Italy, 1984) graduated in 2007 from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts with the artist Vincenzo Ferrari and then collaborated with him as a studio assistant until 2012. In 2014, she completed a Master's degree at the Kask School Academy in Ghent, doing an internship at Michaël Borremans' studio. Among her major solo and group exhibitions are: Kunstmuseum Reutlingen KONKRET, Reutlingen, Germany (2025-2026); Triennale Milano, Italy (2023); Cremona Art Week, Italy (2023); Villa Presti, Ospitaletto (Brescia), Italy (2023); Fondazione ICA Milan, Italy (2022); Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (2022); Museo Floris-Romer, Hungary (2021); The Open Box, Milan, Italy (2021); Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Brussels, Belgium (2018); FABRIKA Moscow, Russia (2017); Blanco Space, Ghent, Belgium (2017); Fondazione Rivoli2, Milan, Italy (2014). She won Il Talento Generoso award in 2024 and the Terna Prize in the Painting section in 2014. She has participated in several artist residencies, including MOMENTUM Berlin (2015), LKV Trondheim Norway (2016), NCCA in Saint Petersburg (2019) and Palazzo Monti in Brescia (2020).
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