Lisetta Carmi's shows in Turin and in London selected as one of best art exhibitions in 2023

Estorick Collection, London; Villa Bardini, Florence
"And yet there remain magnificent women artists to seize from obscurity. Top of Art Review’s Power 100 list for 2023 is Nan Goldin, whose “Ballad of Sexual Dependency”, documenting LGBT+ subculture, shocked in New York back in 1985. Who knew that Lisetta Carmi had got there decades earlier — and in patriarchal Italy? In two excellent exhibitions, her lurid but loving 1960s colour photographs of Genoa’s transgender community, plus crystalline black-and-white chronicles of the port’s dockyard and steel workers, were revelations: for their formal brilliance, immediacy, humanity. Carmi died aged 98 last summer; for me she was the discovery of the year."
December 19, 2023
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