„Spazio, luce, colore luce, luce. L’uomo, il suo limite il suo essere finito nell’infinito.“
(Space, light, color light, light. Man, his limits, his finitude in the infinite.)
The small volume ‘Pagine’ – published bilingually in Munich in 1973 – contains the notations of the painter Antonio Calderara and intensely and exquisitely conveys his thinking and thoughts on art. Life and art reveal themselves as a unity, the activity of the painter, the experience with his own works, but also with the works of other contemporary artists provide him with insights and stabilize views, which became the foundation of a quiet yet demanding life’s work.
The show of paintings and watercolors in our gallery reflects how our encounters with his painting and our exhibitions with Antonio Calderara go back to the year 1969 and how his friendship, generosity and support were a great help and major encouragement for us at the time as young gallerists. His works are an important part of our aesthetic biography and they have accompanied and engaged us for decades. The precision of artistic intentions, the wonderful congruence of invention and execution, of pictorial means and pictorial object, form the great qualities of this utterly unique body of painting.
Our present exhibition, modest in the number of exhibits, refers to two important museum presentations in the Italian and German speaking regions of Switzerland. Taking two different approaches to honoring the artist’s rich and differentiated oeuvre, these presentations serve as meaningful complements to one another.
At MASI Lugano, an extensive retrospective opens on January 22, 2017, compiled and curated by Elio Schenini.
From February 11 to April 30, 2017, Kunstmuseum Winterthur will host another exhibition, which has been prepared with great passion and care by Simona Ciuccio.
We are pleased to see the well-deserved attention being given to the work of an artist whose greatness is superbly achieved within a small pictorial format. The two exhibitions are each accompanied by a separate catalog.
Installation view
Installation view room 2
Installation view room 2
Installation view room 3
Installation view room 3
Installation view office room
Installation view office room
Installation view office room
Installation view room 1
Installation view room 4
Antonio Calderara
Still life (apple and banana)
1926
35 x 45 cm
Oil on linnen
Antonio Calderara
Figura femminile
17 x 9.5 cm
Oil on linnen
Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1967
18.5 x 15.5 cm
Oil on paper on wood
Antonio Calderara
Finestre
1959
13 x 13 cm
Aquarell and pencil on paper
Antonio Calderara
Spazio Luce
1961
27 x 35 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Attrazione quadrata grigia in colore luce grigio
1964–1965
27 x 27 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Orizzonte bicromo nel giallo
1968
11 x 14 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1969
11.5 x 11 cm
Aquarell on paper
Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1964
12 x 13.5 cm
Aquarell on paper
Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1973
80 cm x 9 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Spazio Luce
1973
21 x 27 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Senza titolo
1973
27 x 27 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Pittura
1974
27 x 27 cm
Oil on wood panel
Antonio Calderara
Orizzonte
1968
20.2 x 19 cm
Aquarell on paper
Sol LeWitt
Tilted Form with color ink washes superimposed
1987
Wall Drawing #524, Acryl
Installed by Nicolai Angelov, 2013
Sol LeWitt
Horizontal Bands (More or Less)
2002
154 x 147 cm
Gouache on paper
Sol LeWitt
10’000 straight and 10’000
not straight lines within a
four-meter circle
2005
Wall Drawing #1180
black marker
Drawn by Nicolai Angelov, 2015
Sol LeWitt
Horizontal Lines,
Black on Colors
2005
152.4 x 153.7 cm
Gouache on paper
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) and Will Insley (1929–2011)
March 6 to April 26, 2024
James Bishop
James Bishop
Publisher: ER Publishing, Edited by Molly Warnock
Joseph Egan
Joseph Egan and Anton Himstedt: Common Ground
Publisher: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Ulrike Growe
INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.
Joseph Egan, Ptolemäus: Die Welt im Griff? Antike Kartographie und zeitgenössische Kunst, Kunsthaus Grenchen
3. März bis 26. Mai 2024
Dan Flavin, Widmungen aus Licht, Kunstmuseum Basel
2. März bis 18. August 2024
Rita McBride, Momentum,
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY,
July 1, 2023 to January 2025
Fred Sandback, Kurt Büsser ermöglicht... Erich Buchholz und Fred Sandback, Museum Wiesbaden
19. Januar bis 14. April 2024
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033