Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943)
Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943)

Cinghie [avido, mio nome, ripetuto, nebuloso, farfallesco]

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Pier Paolo Calzolari (b. 1943)
Cinghie [avido, mio nome, ripetuto, nebuloso, farfallesco]
leather belts, iron, salt, neon and transformer
128 x 17 x 4 in. (325.1 x 41.3 x 10.2 cm.)
Executed in 1969.
Provenance
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1990
Exhibited
Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, June-September 1990.
Zürich, Plutschow Gallery, Size Matters, April-July 2019, n.p. (illustrated).
Further details
This work is accompanied by a photo-certificate and is recorded in the archives of Fondazione Calzolari under number A-CAL-1969-24.

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Lot Essay

By making uncommon connections in media, Calzolari’s works resemble a synthesis of extracted ideas. His use of the leather belt suggests the tangible and the practical—physical aspects relevant to our identity. The neon lights represent the impalpable and the sublime. It echoes to the viewer severed, fleeting thoughts—“ripetuto, mio nome, nebuloso, avido, farfallesco”—“repeated, my name, hazy, avid, farcical.” Together, this combination comments on the existential questions that confront his daily life. To the perception of others, his name takes on a multitude of meanings and opinions. Suspended on the wall by the weight of its light and its words, Calzolari entreats: which fleeting thought, which persona, shall I take on today.

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