Isabella Ducrot

Selected Works

Video

Isabella Ducrot – Il Miracoloso

Biography

Born in Naples in 1931, Isabella Ducrot lives and works in Rome. Her artistic approach is extremely sensitive; the initial moment in the creation process of the works is tactile. Ducrot uses textiles and paper both as an artistic medium and as an artistic thread. The raw material, from which her fascination originally emanates, and its characteristics determine the motif for which it becomes an immanent carrier. The same applies to the technique with which the motif is created. Ducrot does not violate the color of the textile or paper with her chromatic scheme; instead, she allows the material to become part of the images. In doing so, she drains the fabric of its historic content, its origins, to treat it like pure matter. She brings out the most hidden elements like structure and the relationship between color and light. The artist’s chosen subjects are landscapes, circles, lovers, vases and teapots. Repetition is the subject and primary theme in many of Ducrot’s artworks. In the East, repetitive elements are an end in itself, the centre of emotion. In the West, they are declared to be ‘decoration’, which is something always somewhat subordinate, framing an event or theme. In Ducrot’s work, the repetitive element becomes the object of representation, the protagonist of the image. The rhythm of life, the heartbeat, is expressed by repetitive elements, which are, not coincidentally, also musical elements. This is a celebration of virtual infinity.

Gallery Exhibitions

Other Venues

Selected Press

06.2024
Artslife
Un “lessico famigliare”: nasce la Fondazione Sandra e Giancarlo Bonollo
25.2023
Frieze
Isabella Ducrot's Practice Is Free From Rules
16.06.2022
ARTNET
Art Basel Offerings Aren’t Just for Billionaires. Here Are 5 Notable Sales at Every Price
2022
ÉMERGENT MAGAZINE
Isabella Ducrot at T293
10.12.2021
EXIBART
Isabella Ducrot con T293 a San Giuseppe delle Scalze a Pontecorvo, Napoli
05.2020
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST
Isabella Ducrot
2018
www.artemorbida.com
Interview with Isabella Ducrot

From the studio: Isabella Ducrot

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Get a glimpse of Isabella Ducrot's practice through an interview in her studio in Rome.
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Special Projects

2024

Upcoming: ‘Hold on miss! Isabella Ducrot unlimited’
Documentary
The Venice Biennale 2024: Authors’ Days – Venetian Nights

Solo exhibitions

2024

‘Tessere è umano’, Museo delle Civiltà, Rome
‘Isabella Ducrot. Vegetal Devotion’, Fondazione Bonollo, Thiene
‘Profusione’, Consortium Museum, Dijon
‘Big Aura’, Haute-Couture Spring-Summer 2024, Dior, Paris
‘No words’, Petzel Gallery, New York

2023

‘La Bella Terra’, MAXXI Taormina, Palazzo Ciampoli, Toarmina
‘Il Miracoloso’, T293, Rome
‘other things’, Sadie Coles, London

2022

‘Nothing is bigger’, Belenius, Stockholm
‘Tenderness’ STANDARD, Oslo
‘Also on View: Isabella Ducrot’, T293, Rome

2021

‘Il Miracoloso’, Le Scalze, Naples
‘Tenderness’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

2020

‘Opere a ripa’, T293, Rome
‘Subjects’, Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva

2019

‘La bella terra’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

2018

‘In Tibet’, Spazio Parlato, Palermo

2016

‘Eden’, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome
‘ Hanjo. Letture 5’, Diagonale libro galleria, Rome

2015

‘Effimero’, Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples

2014

‘Galleryske’, New Delhi
‘Bende sacre’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Rome
‘Isabella Ducrot. Interior Daytime’, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2010

‘Vasi’, Galleria Monty & Company, Rome
Suoni sensi segni, Piomonti Arte contemporanea, Rome

2008

‘Variazioni. Ritratti d’autore di Isabella Ducrot’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
‘Le commencement du monde’, Galleria Monty & Company, Rome
‘Russian Faces’, City University of New York, New York
‘La matassa primordiale’, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome

2005

‘Montagne’, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Berlin

2002

‘Cancion de libertad. Le strade della ricerca sulle donne’, Spalti del Maschio Angioino, Naples
‘Memorie di una terra’, Milan State Archives, Milan

2001

‘Rimpianto dei Budda di Bamyan’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
‘Realms’, Egizio’s Project, New York
‘Fra dentro e fuori’, Casa delle Letterature, Rome

1999

‘Galleria Extra Moenia’, Todi

1998

‘Bianca di pelle’, Galleria Carlo Virgilio, Rome

1997

Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Madrid

1994

‘Orvieto’ Galleria Bonomo, Palazzo del Popolo, Rome

1992

Galleria Kouros, New York

1991

‘Isabella Ducrot. Oeuvres rècentes’, Atelier Catherine Willis, Paris

1989

‘Galleria Sauro Bocchi’, Rome

1988

‘Studi Barozzi’, Milan

1985

Libreria della Galleria Giulia, Rome

 

 

 

Group exhibitions

2022

‘Swim the Mountain Climb the Sea’, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp
‘Ecco s’incontrano’, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Zweigstelle Capitain, Rome
‘Omelette Papier’, Capitain Petzel, Berlin

2021

‘BID21 | Silent Transformations’, Biennale Internazionale Donna, Trieste, Italy
‘Arte e Natura. Opere dalle collezioni capitoline di arte contemporanea’, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy,
‘Io Dico Io’, Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna, Rome
‘Therein / Thereof / Thereto’, STANDARD (OSLO), Oslo

2019

‘Japonismes’, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris

2018

‘Triptychs’, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2017

‘Japonismes’, Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris Homage, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome
‘Prove tecniche di trasmissione’, Caserme Guido Reni, Rome

2016

‘Il sangue delle donne’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
‘Connections’, Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2015

‘L’altra metà dell’arte. Un percorso al femminile nella collezione’, MACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome

2013

‘Partita doppia’, Nuova Galleria Campo dei Fiori / Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2011

‘L’Arte non è cosa nostra’, Italian Pavilion, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice

2010

‘Diorama letterario. Arte e ambiente’, 61st Michetti Price, Museo Michetta, Francavilla al Mare

2009

‘Donne di Roma’, Auditorium, Rome

2006

57th Michetti Price, Francavilla al Mare

2004

‘Epicentro’, Akhenaton Gallery, Cairo OutArt, Villa Sgaravatti, Rome
‘Tre!, L’officina arte al borghetto’, Rome Stracci, Galleria Navona 42, Rome
‘Artivisive Teofilo Patini’, Teofilo Patini Price, Castel di Sangro

2003

‘Art Woman’, Castello Carlo V, Lecce
‘Le opere e i giorni’, Certosa S.Lorenzo, Padula

2001

‘Donne di polso’, Associazione Culturale Marcello Rumma, Rome

2000

‘Il Viaggio, l’Immagine’, Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro Kouros Gallery, New York
‘Carissime nemiche’, Il Politecnico Arte, Rome

1999

‘Balzac e l’Italia’, Bologna; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome
‘EMM – Eventi multimediali’, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

1998

‘Disidentico’, Palazzo Branciforte, Palermo
‘Lavori in corso’, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
‘Della densità del silenzio’, Galleria Navona 42, Rome

1997

‘Babele III’, German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome
‘Arte Contemporanea. Lavori in corso’, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome

1996

‘Art for All’, Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome
‘Cultura-Scrittura. I miei libri’, Osterio Magno, Palermo
‘L’arte è donna’, Art Gallery, Rome

1995

Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, 21st Biennale, Ljubljana Galleria Bonomo, Bari
‘Guepiére’, Galleria Guido Novi, Rome

1994

‘Art et jeans. Reliefs minimax’, Passage de Retz, Paris

1993

‘Straniati Stracci’, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto Italian Pavilion, 45th Venice Biennale, Venice

1990

Galleria Franca Mancini, Pesaro, International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, 1st Biennale, Kōchi

1987

‘Rome Segno, colore, spazio, atmosfere romane’, Istituto Centrale per la Grafica, Rome

1986

‘Ofelia ’86’, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
Ofelia ’86, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris