Calzolari’s work is the least repetitive and predictable to be found in the art of the past fifty years. Similarly, his activity cannot be linked to preconceived schemes. For him art is a springboard towards transformation, making use of ephemeral and transient materials. Most recently a dialogue with history has become more pressing, a development of his aim of “creating meetings” which he had already spoken of in his 1969 essay La casa ideale.
The 2002 show at the Studio la Città was full of surprises: tables with objects floating in water and gold, white, and black monochrome paintings; an electric train bearing a saucepan of boiling soup and sheets of paper blackened by candle-smoke; an installation with clothes dancing in midair born aloft by clusters of balloons. Serenely variable modulations: dance, sculpture, and performance were led to new syntheses.
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Available works
Installations
Available works
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Senza titolo, 1973
Salt on paper, cardboard, graphite, lead, iron tile, glass carafe, and goldfish
80 x 55 x 15 cm -
Senza titolo - Gesti, 1969
Lead, copper, refrigerating structure, refrigerator motor, neon, transformer
227 x 252 x 95 cm -
Gravure blanche, 1994
Etching on paper (four sheets), motor, wooden stick and plate, glass, and calla lily
etching on paper
192 x 350 cm installation
350 x 279 x 199 cm -
Tiara IV, 2007
Stretcher with canvas painted in tempera grassa with milk, iron structure, small electric motor, linen cloth, gold pin, egg
279 x 103 x 58 cm
Installations
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Installation view, 2022
Studio la Città at ArtVerona, Verona
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Quello che non ho venduto..., 2019
Installation view
Studio la Città, Verona -
Pier Paolo Calzolari, 2016
Installation view
Studio la Città, Verona -
Installation view, 2016
Studio la Città at Arte Fiera, Bologna
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Pier Paolo Calzolari, 2002
Installation view
Studio la Città, Verona
photo by Luca Carrà -
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Fausto Melotti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, 2004
Installation view
Studio la Città, Verona
