Pier Paolo Calzolari - Charta 1999

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna March 14-May 2 1999. 

Pier Paolo Calzolari's first solo exhibition was in 1965 at the Sala Studio Bentivoglio. He soon became one of the protagonists of Arte Povera. Calzolari's most commonly used materials include ice, margarine, molten lead, neon lettering, metallic, organic and natural, malleable materials, with a preference for relationships involving the concept of transformation and adding sound as a temporal experience to physical objects. In the arte povera movement he stands out for the poetic and literary quality of his works with actions bordering on performance (Canto sospeso, 1973). He is present at the Venice Biennale of the years 1978, 1980 and 1990. In 1992 he participated in Documenta IX in Kassel. In the 1980s he returned to traditional pictorial works with metaphysical and existential abstractions.
Texts by Mario Bertoni, Pier Paolo Calzolari and Bruno Corà.

128p - IT - 28x22cm - softcover - good condition