Pier Paolo Calzolari: Painting as a Butterfly

This catalogue offers a thorough and
complete 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.

Paintings
and drawings represent a lesser known and exhibited part of his
artistic production, but an equally important one: the practice of
painting - as the artist himself declares - is a ‘listening tool’, a
state of ‘suspension’ capable of bringing to synthesis the multiple
articulations of his research, both minimalist and sensual, conceptual
and baroque.

Through critical essays and an unprecedented
conversation with the artist, the volume offers the opportunity to
deepen the many ideas that arise from the analysis of Calzolari’s art:
from his studies on colour, on the effects of light and on the
transformations of matter, the relationship between painting and
sculpture, up to the investigation on the relationship between artwork,
space and observer.

Text in English and Italian.