Pier Paolo Calzolari On the Quiet Alchemy of Time

A melancholy awareness of time passing, a longing for something unnamed and unnamable and an acceptance of the necessary flux of all things within the unrestrainable entropic evolution of matter and energy animate the work of Italian master Pier Paolo Calzolari. Emerging from a sustained dialogue with living, vibrating matter, his works often take the form of simple traces left by processes of transformation, bearing witness to the transient nature of all forms and entities as they remain subject to constant change...