Antonio Calderara, Untitled, 1971, Color Screen Print

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Antonio Calderara

1903 Abbiategrasso/Milan - 1978 Vacciago

Composition, 1971

Screen print on light cardboard
Monogrammed, dated, and limited edition in … Read more Antonio Calderara

1903 Abbiategrasso/Milan - 1978 Vacciago

Composition, 1971

Screen print on light cardboard
Monogrammed, dated, and limited edition in pencil lower left: 45/150
Image size: 27 x 27 cm
Frame size: 36 x 36 cm

Good condition (see photos)

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In favor of painting, Antonio Calderara abandoned his engineering studies in 1925, after a solo exhibition in 1923. He had begun his engineering studies two years earlier at the Polytechnic University of Milan. A self-taught artist, Calderara experimented extensively from the 1930s to the late 1950s, rapidly exploring various styles. Alongside still lifes, which are associated with Morandi's meditatively restrained style, are landscapes, figure paintings, and portraits close to Impressionism, the latter reminiscent of the New Objectivity movement. In his search for a definitive, adequate artistic expression, the milky landscape of Lake Orta, where Calderara lived for decades and which fascinated him, became his favored subject. Achieving an ever-greater degree of abstraction, Calderara ultimately detached himself entirely from landscape and architecture in his series of Lake Orta works, opening himself to a non-representational world in which tangible reality exists only as memory. According to his own perception, the artist painted his first purely abstract picture in 1959. from then on, he developed a delicately colored and abstract style akin to Albers. Beginning with the principle of the Golden Ratio, numerical relationships and proportions were of great importance to Calderara. For his geometric approach, the artist coined the term "spazio mentale," or "mental space." Calderara differed from the representatives of Constructivism or Concrete Art in that, despite his systematic approach, he did not adhere to strictly radical pictorial concepts or color systems, but rather acted intuitively in his methodology. Regarding his artistic intention, Calderara himself said: "I want to paint the nothingness that is the whole, the silence, the light, measure, order, harmony. The infinite."

Until his death in 1978, Antonio Calderara lived alternately in Milan and Vacciago. This piece has an attribution mark,
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