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Casa ideale by Pier Paolo Calzolari
Setting out from the manifesto written in 1968, Casa ideale explores the poetic reach of Pier Paolo Calzolari’s work: a programmatic text that was to become a vehicle for a series of ideas that endowed the artist’s practice with direction, clearly outlining his intentions and evoking a range of interpretative possibilities.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (nmnmonaco), the volume offers a wide-ranging overview on his research, retracing the key moments of a career that touched on the mainstays of Arte Povera as well as those of conceptual art. Through reproductions of historic works and performances, a new series of unpublished drawings and a collection of texts commissioned especially for the occasion, the book provides a rare opportunity to discover the world of Pier Paolo Calzolari, known for his unconventional approaches to the various disciplines of the visual arts. By constructing a process of metaphysical abstraction, Calzolari puts together a plural work, capable of combining various formal languages and triggering a transition between the physical and the aesthetic dimensions.
Texts: Pier Paolo Calzolari (pierpaolocalzolari), Valérie Da Costa (valeriedacosta1600), Guillaume de Sardes (prussianblue.fr), Didier Semin, Stéphane Vacquier, Andrea Viliani
Design: Valerio Di Lucente (valeriodilucente)
📸: Agnese Bedini (agnese_bedini), DSL Studio (dsl__studio)
The book is available on our website (link in bio or stories), at the Nouveau Musée National de Monaco - Villa Paloma and Villa Sauber boutiques, and in bookshops.