Beatrice Caracciolo (b. 1955, São Paulo, Brazil), a Paris-based Italian artist, is known primarily for her semi-abstract drawings and collages of scenes from nature and art history, rendered through dynamic and delicate markings. With its roots in Abstract Expressionism and Arte Povera, Caracciolo's work both distills and disrupts representation, reworking scenes such as stormy seas, tempestuous skies, entangled woods or the physical drama and exuberance of Baroque paintings, in order to retain and express their impetuous motion and lyrical energy. Beneath the surface, the pentimenti of past markings suggest additional depths. Caracciolo’s one-person exhibition The Parable of the Blind took place at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, in early 2024 and a two-person exhibition with Mark di Suvero was held at Paula Cooper Gallery’s Palm Beach location in 2022. Other recent one-person exhibitions include Créer en soi le dragon de feu, at the Temple Collection in Beijing (2016); … pour que passe enfin mon torrent d’anges at the Château de Haroué in Haroué, France (2012); and Tumulti at the Académie de France à Rome, Villa Medici (2010). Works by the artist are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Morgan Library, New York; the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Accademia di Francia a Roma Villa Medici, Rome.
