Isabella Ducrot and the Museo delle Civiltà in Rome are both experiencing a renaissance. Although known in her native Italy since the 1990s, the nonagenarian Rome-based artist has only recently gained international fame, in part due to the artworld’s attempts to redress gender inequalities, and the ensuing reevaluation of women artists. Despite working for over four decades – shifting seamlessly between abstraction and figuration in her paintings, drawings, collages and fabric works – Ducrot has only just had her first international solo museum show, at the Consortium, Dijon, this summer.
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