Cooperativa Beato Angelico
The Cooperativa Beato Angelico was an only-women exhibition space operating Rome from 1976-1978.
In 1976, Carla Accardi, LeoNilde Carabba, Franca Chiabra, Anna Maria Colucci, Nedda Guidi, Regina della Noce, Eva Menzio, Teresa Montemaggiori, Stephanie Oursler, Suzanne Santoro and Silvia Truppi founded the Cooperativa Beato Angelico. This was a space dedicated to women artists from the present and the past. Some of the founders were feminist activists from the Rivolta Femminile group, such as Carla Accardi, Anna Maria Colucci, Stephanie Oursler and Suzanne Santoro. Stephanie Oursler and Suzanne Santoro come from the United States and recently moved to Rome. Most of them were artists whereas Eva Menzio was an art critic. This was the first stable place for women artist in Italy and before is closing, in 1978, they organized 10 shows including artist from the past as Artemisia Gentileschi and Regina Bracchi.
- Publications
- Katia Almerini, "Women's Art Spaces: Two Mediterranean Case Studies" in All-Women Art Spaces in Europe in the Long 1970s, eds. Agata Jakubowska and Katy Deepwell, Liverpool University Press, 2018, pp 189-208. Publisher.
- Maria Bremer, "From Woman to Woman. Exhibiting Genealogy – Carla Accardi’s Origine, 1976", Palinsesti 8, 2019.
- Katia Almerini, "The Beato Angelico Cooperative. A Feminist Art Space in Rome", in Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy. The Legacy of Carla Lonzi, eds. Francesco Ventrella and Givanna Zapperi, Bloomsbury, 2020, pp 209-229. Publisher.
- Maria Bremer, "Unexpected Artists. The Cooperativa Beato Angelico in the Context of 1970s Feminism", Römisches Jahrbuch der Bibliotheca Hertziana 44, 2019/2020, pp 483-498.
- Maria Bremer, "Exhibiting in a Revisionist Mode: All-Women Shows in 1970s Italy", in Now We Have Seen: Women and Art in 1970s Italy, ed. Giorgia Gastaldon, Silvana, 2024, pp 15-33.
- Links
- Her stories from Italy, a talk by Katia Almerini, video, The Showroom Gallery, London, 2016.
- http://www.herstory.it/cooperativa-beato-angelico
- Wikipedia-FR
