Lugano
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
58.5 x 38.5 x 1.5 cm (framed: 60.5 x 41 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
58.5 x 38.5 x 1.5 cm (framed: 60.5 x 41 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
With these new works, his recent creations which we are happy and honoured to present – paper applied to the board, on which salt (presented as a large and dominant surface) dialogues with the milk tempera and various kinds of crayon – his creativity manages to regain a greater degree of decoration, an unprecedented pleasantness, like an extreme and lyrical song. In these new works, Calzolari seems to counterbalance a degree of calm, of tenderness, a fortuitous gracefulness made up of joyful and lively colours to his traditional stormy, restless and experimental waters; woven to form a candid fabric of kindly, refined gestures, in a chromatic approach which is both energetic and humble, brilliant and delicate. An unprecedented ‘pictorial’ universe, in which his previous ‘brazen cry’, having acquired a new air of wisdom, has been transformed into a multicolour zen chant.
Carlo and Paolo Repetto
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Never before exhibited, the project comprising twenty-two studies for a lemon house is sui generis, a one-of-a-kind suite complete in itself. Nevertheless, its matrix belongs to Calzolari’s wider practice – specifically the aforementioned painting-as-lyric mode. Executed on Torchon Arches paper mounted on board, the support’s roughness not only has a grain that helps texture the milk tempera medium, it also chimes with another of Calzolari’s signature substances, layered salt. In turn, the granular pigmented surface deftly embellished by marks made with ultra-soft, friable pastels (pastel à l’écu) establishes a concrete metaphor for the look and feel of a lemon’s skin. But before considering the fruit, Calzolari’s touch in this pictorial style merits mention. He has described “painting as a butterfly”. The butterfly and Calzolari’s facture have one common quality (beside their beauty): they quiver light as a feather (which, by no coincidence, belongs among the artist’s leitmotifs). Lightness is to materiality as transience is to time. After all, fruits form a late stage in a plant’s development, a prelude to its dormancy or death.
David Anfam
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
77 x 57.5 x 2 cm (framed: 79.5 x 60 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio
Salt, tempera, pastels “à l’écu” and oil pastels on Arches watercolor “Torchon” paper laid on board
58.5 x 38.5 x 1.5 cm (framed: 60.5 x 41 x 4 cm)
Signed and titled on the front
Provenance: Artist’s Studio