Direction of Photography for 5 videos
Born in Bologna in 1943, Pier Paolo Calzolari began his artistic career creating works similar to those of the American Neo-Dadaists.
Since the end of the 1960s, however, Calzolari has undertaken a more complex approach involving installations and happenings, revealing his precise desire to "contaminate" art with life and all of its rhythms and paraphernalia, thereby contributing to and elaborating on the artistic dialogue put forth by Arte Povera.
Utilizing natural materials like tobacco, banana leaves, wax, salt, margarine, and musk and more technological elements such as neon light, Calzolari creates artworks that originate from autobiographical notes and reflections on the role of the artist.
