Madre in Naples dedicates a retrospective to Pier Paolo Calzolari, a major protagonist of arte povera

At Madre, the first retrospective devoted exclusively to the painting and drawing work of Pier Paolo Calzolari (Bologna, 1943), one of the most important contemporary artists, an exponent of the research afferent toArte Povera. Organized in close collaboration with the Calzolari Foundation, forty years after the artist’s last exhibition in a public space in Naples(Villa Pignatelli, 1977), Painting as a Butterfly (this is the title of the exhibition), curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Andrea Viliani, presents more than 70 paintings, drawings and multi-material works created from the mid-1960s to the present, documenting all the main cycles and phases of the artist’s research.

In this way, the exhibition defines itself as a research tool aimed at investigating, in relation to the history of contemporary Italian art, a complex and articulated artistic practice such as that of Pier Paolo Calzolari, in which natural matter does not exclude its pictorial representation, abstraction its figuration, the space-time of the work and that of the environment in which it is inserted.

Painting as a Butterfly opens from June 8 to September 30, 2019.

For information and reservations you can visit the Madre’s official website.

Pictured: Pier Paolo Calzolari, Mangiafuoco (1979; private collection). Ph. credit: Michele Alberto Sereni.

Source: press release

Madre in Naples dedicates a retrospective to Pier Paolo Calzolari, a major protagonist of arte povera

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