PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI
(Bologna 1943)
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mixed technique on cardboard, 70x100 cm
performed in 1969
The work is registered at the Pier Paolo Calzolari Archive
The work is accompanied by authentic
Emblematic figure of Italian contemporary art
In 1965 he returned to Bologna and opened a studio at Palazzo Bentivoglio, where he made his first painting works and hosted exhibitions by other artists, presenting the first 8mm and super8 films by Ari Marcopoulos, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas and Mario Schifano and he met characters like Allen Ginsberg, Julian Beck, Luigi Ontani, Raymond Hains and Chet Baker. In 1966-1967 he created the first of his works-performances (The filter and welcome to the angel) that involves the spectators in a direct participation of the work and that Calzolari himself defines a "activation of space", according to a typical work method of his subsequent production: the "acts of passion".