
This work is registered with the Fondazione Calzolari, under number A-CAL-1972-44.
Pier Paolo Calzolari's untitled work, registered with the Fondazione Calzolari under number A-CAL-1972-44, exemplifies the artist's deeply poetic engagement with Arte Povera, combining humble and elemental materials — lead, salt, iron, glass, and oil lamps — into a contemplative installation. The flickering warmth of the oil lamps activates the surrounding materials, encouraging processes of transformation, oxidation, and crystallization that unfold slowly over time. The work embodies Calzolari's enduring fascination with the alchemical and the ephemeral, treating the artwork as a living, mutable presence rather than a static object.
- Medium
- lead, salt, iron, glass and oil lamps
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Evening Sale
February 9, 2016
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