Born in Bologna 1943, Pier Paolo Calzolari was originally associated with “Arte Povera” and included in the seminal 1960’s exhibitions curated by Germano Celant. The artist’s youth was spent in Venice where he was influenced by the city’s particular light and its reflection on the marble of the buildings. These observations lead him to working with one of his most unique and defining materials in the form of frost to illustrate the perfect white, as it only can exist in nature. His other materials are also elemental and frequently organic: fire, salt, lead, tobacco, moss, burnt wood, oyster shells, tobacco leaves, felt neon, and on occasion butter. While Calzolari may be classified as an installation artist, his practice also includes painting, sculpture and performance. He created “happenings” as early as 1966, drawing viewers into his artwork as performers in what he termed “an activation of space.” Over the subsequent decades Calzolari has continued to experiment, exploring his ongoing interest in light, matter, and time within these media. The artist currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Pier Paolo Calzolari. Muitos estudos para uma casa de limão - Repetto Gallery, London.
Pier Paolo Calzolari - White Cube Mason's Yard, London
Pier Paolo Calzolari: And I Say - Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York.
Pier Paolo Calzolari della collezione Studio la Città - Studio La Città, Verona
Pier Paolo Calzolari - Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
Pier Paolo Calzolari - Drawings, projects and works on paper - Ronchini Gallery, London
Pier Paolo Calzolari: Comodini - Boesky East, New York City, NY
Paris, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Another, September 14 - October 26, 2013
Milan, Galleria Repetto, Pier Paolo Calzolari: Sur l’aile du tourbillon intelligent, April 19 – May 25, 2013, travelling to Acqui Terme, Italy, Galleria Repetto, June 8 – July 20, 2013
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Abstract in Your Home, 118 East 64th Street location, November 10, 2012 - January 12, 2013
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery in collaboration with Pace Gallery, When a dreamer dies what happens to the dream, April 28 – June 2, 2012
Athens, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Pier Paolo Calzolari, October 6 – November 17, 2011
Venice, Ca’ Pesaro, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, June 4 – October 30, 2011
Bologna, Galleria de' Foscherari, Che ne è del sogno, Januray 22 – February 27, 2011, travels to
Bologna, Museo Morandi, January 22 – February 13, 2011
Bologna, MAMbo, January 22 – March 27, 2011
Nature Morte, Galleria Il Ponte Contemporanea, Roma
Christian Stein, Milano Galleria Cardi & Co., Milano
Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Nizza
Quadreria Cesarini, Fossombrone
Studio la Città, Verona
Galerie Giorgio Persano, Torino
Kleine Musik, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Galerie de France, Paris
Galleria d'arte moderna, Villa delle Rose, Bologna
Au clair de la lune, Centre d'art, Crestet
Là, où les êtres et les choses se font miroir, la Criée, Rennes; Centre d'art contemporain, Domain de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Pier Paolo Calzolari, Helmut Newton, Castello di Rivoli
FAE Musée d'art contemporain, Pully-Lausanne Lieu, persone, temps, chacun influe sur l'autre, Domain de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-paul-de-Vence
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Studio Bocchi, Roma
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino
Galleria Gentili-Arte Contemporanea, Firenze
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln
Galleria Rossana Ferri, Modena
Associazione Culturale per le Arti Visive, Pesaro
Galerie Micheline Szwajeer, Antwerpen
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Milano
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino
Galleria Civica, Modena
Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino
Galerie de France, Paris
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Wien
Galleria Luigi De Ambrogi, Milano
Galerie Knoedler, Zürich
Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens
Galerie de Paris, Paris
Galleria LP 220, Torino
Galleria Giuliana De Crescenzo, Roma
Galleria del Capricorno, Venezia
Galerie Issert, Saint-Paul-de-Vence
Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena
Galleria Tucci-Russo, Torino
InK, Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zürich
Galleria Ferruccio Fata, Bologna
Galleria Gianenzo Sperone, Roma
Galleria Salvatore Ala, Milano
Galerie Jean & Karen Bernier, Athens
Galleria Tucci-Russo, Torino
Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortez, Napol
Galleria Franco Toselli, Milano
Villa Delma di Saiano, Brescia
Strumenti, Brescia
Galleria Forma, Genova
Galleria De Ambrogi-Cavellini, Milano
Galleria Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara
Galleria Marinucci-Russo, Torino
Studio Paola Betti, Milano
Galleria Multipli, Torino
Studioerre, Cuneo
Galleria Franco Toselli, Milano
Galerie Baecker, Bocum
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin
Festival d'Automne, Musée Galliéra, Paris
Modern Art Agency (Galleria Lucio Amelio), Napoli
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Galeria Gianenzo Sperone, Torino
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Galeria Gianenzo Sperone, Torino
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna
Studio Bentivoglio, Bologna