Raffaella Carra

Project: "Pop Icons"

Year: 2024

Dimensions: 60 x 60 x 1.5 (cm)

Technique: Acrylic and digital inkjet print on canvas

DESCRIPTION

Considered "the queen of Italian television", Raffaella Carrà has been called "an icon of pop culture" in Europe and Latin America by Italian and international critics, and, between the 1970s and 1980s, she became a forerunner of feminism and women's sexual freedom in Italian and Spanish television and music industries. She has been praised throughout her career for her impact on "Pop Culture" and the entertainment industry, being compared to Donna Summer. "Vogue España" called the artist an "intergenerational phenomenon, of social and cultural significance, destined to be remembered forever", while "The Guardian" considered her the "pop star who taught Europe the joy of sex" in Catholic bigotry.

I created this artwork drawing inspiration from a photograph that portrays her and that I have always loved and that encloses in the expression of her eyes and lips all that she was an "Icon" of a television in the midst of its transformation and adaptation to its times and the cultural revolutions of the time.

I first elaborated the background, created using digital inkjet techniques, on the computer, trying to find a combination between the sets of television programs of the time, which I saw imagining their colors since my family only had one black and white television, and the majolica tiles that adorned the kitchens of the time where the family watched TV while sitting down to dinner.

EXHIBITIONS

2025: Catania - "RINASCENT" Store;

2025 Palma/Spain - "Casa del Arte".