Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of the Independent Art Fair in New York City with a solo booth featuring a new body of work by seminal Italian artist Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943). The presentation follows Calzolari's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Painting as a Butterfly (March 18 - April 23, 2022), which was the first significant presentation of the artist's work since his retrospective at Museo Madre in Napoli, Italy in 2019.
These new works were created in a period of isolation and delicately channel a collective longing for human connection. The series continues his long-standing observation of modern urban life, in which the artist creates fictional encounters such as a stroll past a shoemaker, flower shop, or a hatter. Painting with blue, red, and yellow pastels à l'écu, a medium that combines the tradition of Old Masters with modern chemistry, Calzolari collapses temporalities on salt-strewn canvas and creates moments for viewers to meditate on their personal emotions and memories.Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to participate in the 2022 edition of the Independent Art Fair in New York City with a solo booth featuring a new body of work by seminal Italian artist Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943). The presentation follows Calzolari's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Painting as a Butterfly (March 18 - April 23, 2022), which was the first significant presentation of the artist's work since his retrospective at Museo Madre in Napoli, Italy in 2019. These new works were created in a period of isolation and delicately channel a collective longing for human connection. The series continues his long-standing observation of modern urban life, in which the artist creates fictional encounters such as a stroll past a shoemaker, flower shop, or a hatter. Painting with blue, red, and yellow pastels à l'écu, a medium that combines the tradition of Old Masters with modern chemistry, Calzolari collapses temporalities on salt-strewn canvas and creates moments for viewers to meditate on their personal emotions and memories. The presentation follows Calzolari's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Painting as a Butterfly (March 18 - April 23, 2022), which was the first significant presentation of the artist's work since his retrospective at Museo Madre in Naples, Italy in 2019. Independent will be on view from March 5 to March 8 at Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York, and the gallery's booth will be on the 6th floor. The presentation follows Calzolari's fourth solo exhibition with the gallery, Painting as a Butterfly (March 18 - April 23, 2022), which was the first significant presentation of the artist's work since his retrospective at Museo Madre in Naples, Italy in 2019. Independent will be on view from March 5 to March 8 at Spring Studios, 50 Varick Street, New York, and the gallery's booth will be on the 6th floor.