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 internationally since the mid-1980s, including at the Venice Biennales of 1993 and 2011.

Isabella Ducrot was born in Naples, Italy in 1931. She now lives and works in Rome, Italy.

Collections

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

Exhibitions

Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Super Super Markt (Berlin), T293 (Rome), Sadie Coles (London), Belenius (Stockholm), STANDARD (Oslo), Le Scalze (Naples), Galerie Gisela Capitain (Naples), Capitain Petzel (Berlin), Galerie Gisela Capitain (Cologne), Biennale Internazionale Donna (Trieste), Museo Carlo Bilotti (Rome), Galerie Mezzanin (Geneva), Spazio Parlato (Palermo), Maja Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Diagonale libro galleria (Rome), Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (Naples), MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma (Rome), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Rome, 54th Venice Biennale (Venice), Piomonti Arte contemporanea (Rome), Museo Michetta (Francavilla al Mare), Galleria Monty & Company (Rome), City University of New York (New York), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome), Galleria Carlo Virgilio (Rome), Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Berlin), Spalti del Maschio Angioino (Naples), Milan State Archives (Milan), Egizio’s Project (New York), Casa delle Letterature (Rome), Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Madrid), 21st Biennale, Ljubljana Galleria Bonomo (Bari), Palazzo del Popolo (Rome), 45th Venice Biennale (Venice), Galleria Kouros (New York), Atelier Catherine Willis (Paris), International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Galleria Franca Mancini (Pesaro), Istituto Centrale per la Grafica (Rome) and the Libreria della Galleria Giulia (Rome).