watercolor
digital‑age storytelling
while the book’s elegant design evokes the artist’s Middle Eastern sensibility
sampling cakes and just generally stirring up trouble
Pier Paolo Calzolari Stephen Calloway and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons watercolorPier Paolo Calzolari, born in 1943 in Bologna, is recognized as a leading figure of the Arte Povera movement and a seminal artist whose practice spans painting, sculpture, video, audio, text, performance, installation, architecture, light, and video. Through the use of both ordinary and unconventional materials, such as lead, salt, neon, ice, tobacco, moss, fire, and butter, Calzolari explores transformation of matter and ephemeral statesexploiting an