Pier Paolo Calzolari

Calzolari spent most of his childhood in Venice, Italy, where the cultural Byzantine heritage and the singular light of the city over the water profoundly influenced his work.

(The filter and welcome to the angel) Between 1968 and 1969, at the age 25, Calzolari worked in Urbino as an assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts.

[2] In 1969, Calzolari also participated in the historical show "Live In Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form" curated by Harald Szeemann at the Kunsthalle Bern.

In the late 1980s, Calzolari retreated to Fossombrone, a small town in the Marche region of central Italy, where he has largely kept out of the public eye and worked in his studio.

[citation needed] Today, Pier Paolo Calzolari is represented by Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, and Kamel Mennour, Paris.