Pier Paolo Calzolari

This work is in mint condition. The tonality of the catalogue illustration is slightly more reddish compared to the original.
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"Per Arte Povera si intende una grande rivoluzione laica, una visione francescana non antropomorfica, ma antropocentrica, di rapporto con la terra, con il fuoco, l'aria, una visione di esplorazione reciproca e orizzontale. Se per Arte Povera si intende ideologia e altro io non sono d'accordo, non l'ho mai intesa così".

"By Arte Povera one means a great laic revolution, a Franciscan vision that is not anthropomorphic, but anthropocentric, of relationship with the land, with the fire, the air, a vision of mutual and horizontal exploration. If by Arte Povera one means ideology and other I do not agree, I never understood it in that way."

Pier Paolo Calzolari, intervistato da Giancarlo Politi in Flash Art, n. 314, febbraio 2014, p. 32