Pier Paolo Calzolari's Poetic Installations at Studio la Città, Verona

Studio la Città in Verona presents works from its museum-level collection by Pier Paolo Calzolari (Bologna, 1943). The exhibition, on view until November 12, 2016, transforms the gallery into a meditative space where sculptures, paintings, fabrics, and furnishings form dialogic altars. Calzolari's practice, spanning from early 'Gesti' to recent 'Nature Morte', explores the tension between presence and precariousness, using freezing structures to capture form in its essential dimension. Light—whether incarnated in painting, neon, or transformative fire in candles—governs the appearance, dissolution, and transfiguration of objects. The artist draws inspiration from childhood observations of frost (galaverna) in Venice, and his work embodies a Franciscan horizontality that rejects hierarchical distinctions between physical and metaphysical realms. The exhibition emphasizes multisensory epiphanies, with machine sounds or imagined chemical reactions making perceptible the dialogue between mutation and resistance.