Antonio Calderara
Italian artist Antonio Calderara's subtle, minimal works on canvas and paper belie his time as a student of engineering in Milan during the 1920s. He left his studies to become a self-taught painter, initially working in a realist style, but later took inspiration from Josef Albers and Piet Mondrian. By the mid-1950s, Calderara began to move away from figurative painting to embrace a more geometric approach, radically reducing both the scale and the compositional elements of his paintings through use of simple forms and flat blocks of nebulous and subtle colour. Situated neither within Constructivist nor Minimalist movements, his pared-down vocabulary of lines and squares, refined colour palette and precise measurements nevertheless positioned Calderara closely with other minimalist painters at the time. A meeting in 1960 with Almir da Silva Mavignier, which led to his inclusion in the avant-garde Studio f at Ulm Museum.
Calderara participated in the 1948 and 1956 Venice Biennales as well as documenta 4, Kassel, (1968). Solo exhibitions include Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany (1981); Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (1993); and Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy (2004).
Available works by Antonio Calderara
Available Artists
- Albers Anni
- Andre Carl
- Avery Milton
- Baldessari John
- Bell Larry
- Boyd John
- Brice Lisa
- Christo and Jeanne-Claude
- Dadamaino
- Dávila Jose
- de Tollenaere Saskia
- Downing Thomas
- Dyson Julian
- Francis Sam
- Freud Lucian
- Gadsby Eric
- Gander Ryan
- Guston Philip
- Haring Keith
- Held Al
- Hockney David
- Kapoor Anish
- Katz Alex
- Kelly Ellsworth
- Knifer Julije
- Kruger Barbara
- Kusama Yayoi
- Le Parc Julio
- Leciejewski Edgar
- Levine Chris
- LeWitt Sol
- Lichtenstein Roy
- Mack Heinz
- Maripol
- Martin Agnes
- Martin Jason
- Martin Kenneth
- Mavignier Almir da Silva
- Miller Harland
- Morellet François
- Motherwell Robert
- Nadelman Elie
- Nemours Aurélie
- O'Donoghue Hughie
- Pettibone Richard
- Prehistoric Objects
- Prince Richard
- Quinn Marc
- Riley Bridget
- Ruscha Ed
- Scott William
- Shrigley David
- Smith Anj
- Smith Richard
- Sonnier Keith
- Soto Jesús Rafael
- Soulages Pierre
- Taller Popular de Serigrafía
- The Connor Brothers
- Turk Gavin
- Vasarely Victor
- Warhol Andy
- Wesselmann Tom
- Wood Jonas
- Wool Christopher