Isabella Ducrot

Employing diverse media – including pencil, pastel, ink and watercolour – Isabella Ducrot’s works compress an array of cultural references, encompassing philosophy, folklore and textile weaving. At both intimate and expansive scales, she draws upon and reinterprets the rare textiles that she has collected from different parts of the world. The artist’s chosen subjects are landscapes, circles, lovers, vases and teapots. Repetition is the subject and primary theme in many of Ducrot’s works. It 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.

Ducrot’s work has been exhibited at the Biennale Arte, Venice, in 1993 and 2011.

Explore available works →

Isabella Ducrot Grande Abito, 2021

About

Isabella Ducrot (b. 1931 in Naples, Italy) lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Exhibitions

Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne; Sadie Coles HQ, London; Le Consortium, Dijon; Petzel Gallery, New York (all 2024); MAXXI Taormina, Palazzo Ciampoli; T293, Rome (both 2023); Standard, Oslo (2022); San Giuseppe delle Scalze, Naples (2021); Galerie Mezzanin, Geneva (2020); Maja Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2019); Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli, Naples (2015); and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2014).

Ducrot’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Super Super Markt, Berlin (2023); Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome; Galleria Nazionale, Rome; BID21ART/ Biennale Internazionale Donna, Trieste (all 2021); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome (2015); 54th Biennale Arte, Venice (2011); 21st Biennale, Ljubljana (1995); and the 45th Biennale Arte, Venice (1993).

Collections

Isabella Ducrot's work is part of public collections worldwide. These include the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome.

Press

FRIEZE →
The New Yorker →
THE WORLD OF INTERIORS →

Isabella Ducrot Profusione
Le Consortium, Dijon
April 26 – September 8, 2024

View exhibition →