“Pier Paolo Calzolari: Return to Venice”
(Painting Workshop and Conference/Seminar)

and
“Appunti”

Exhibition of students of the Painting courses in Giudecca

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The Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (NTA Course and Painting Giudecca), hosts the artist PierPaolo Calzolari for a workshop/exhibition with the students of the painting course (May 26from 10:30 to 13) at the Hydro Mirò space at CREA Cantieri del Contemporaneo and a conference/seminar (May 27 from 10:30 to 13) at Room 7A of the Academy Headquarters, conducted by the teachers of Contemporary Art History Marco Tonelli and Giuliano Sergio in the presence of the artist.

The exhibition, organized by professors Arthur Duff, Miriam Pertegato, Nemanja Cvijanovic, Julia Landrichter, will continue to be open to the public until May 31 and will see the presence of the following students:
Asegul Aydin, Luca Antoniol, Carlotta Bellucco, Guido Bottazzo, Eva Carlan, Sara Cecconi, Katia Crivellaro, Romina Dorigo, Elisabetta Frassine, Tia Juo, Filippo Locatelli, Anna Michelin, Chloe Motolese, Gioele Provenzano and Vinicio Tronca.

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Opening hours: 10.00-18.00

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Calzolari Biography

Pier Paolo Calzolari’s (Bologna, 1943) research is based on a personal combination of painting, performance and material installations, which he himself defines as a practice of “activation of space”. Influenced at a young age by the climate, the atmospheric agents and the “materials” of Venice (salt, marble, water, fog and light), over the decades he has created a large cycle of works with freezing structures and neon, fire, lead, tin, salt, moss, tobacco. Since the 1960s he has based his poetics on color and the pictorial vision (from Valori Plastici to Morandi and Casorati), related to the physical involvement of spectators, as in the famous performance-works Il Filtro e Benvenuto all’Angelo (1966-1967) or Usura amore e misericordia (1972-1974). Despite the proximity to the contemporary production of the artists of Arte Povera, Conceptual Art and Post Minimalism, Calzolari’s art is based on the passage of time,
on the fragility of life and on alchemical processes.