Pier Paolo Calzolari

This catalogue offers a thorough andcomplete investigation of the pictorial work of Pier Paolo Calzolari(Bologna, 1943), one of the most important contemporary Italian artists,an exponent since the sixties of the research related to the Arte Povera movement.

Paintingsand drawings represent a lesser known and exhibited part of hisartistic production, but an equally important one: the practice ofpainting - as the artist himself declares - is a 'listening tool', astate of 'suspension' capable of bringing to synthesis the multiplearticulations of his research, both minimalist and sensual, conceptualand baroque.

Through critical essays and an unprecedentedconversation with the artist, the volume offers the opportunity todeepen the many ideas that arise from the analysis of Calzolari's art:from his studies on colour, on the effects of light and on thetransformations of matter, the relationship between painting andsculpture, up to the investigation on the relationship between artwork,space and observer.

Text in English and Italian.