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Z2O Galleria l Sara Zanin
PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI
&
MARCO MARIA GIUSEPPE SCIFO
EntreNous
September 25th – November 10th, 2014
opening: september 25th, h. 6-9 pm
via della Vetrina 21, Roma
Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin is pleased to present EntreNous, an exhibition by PIER PAOLO CALZOLARI
and MARCO MARIA GIUSEPPE SCIFO.
The exhibition inaugurates a variety of pieces by two artists of different generations, within the same gallery
space. It encourages the careful examination of the practical, poetical and stylistic consonances and
dissonances, in order to highlight not only the similarities but also the uniqueness of each piece. The works
displayed will serve to construct a physical and mental place within the gallery, a version of reality filtered
by thought and defined by a bond between work, time and ambience, and it is this which forms a
relationship with the viewer.
Untitled (2010) by Pier Paolo Calzolari, is part of a series of “material sculptures” that carry with them the
stories of their creation. The sculpture is conceived as a living organism, a choir of heterogeneous
elements strongly evoking both a dialogue and transformation of the space. The artist uses a wide range of
simple materials, both living (lead, iron, wood, copper, ice and majolica) and dead (burnt wood): these
organic and inorganic elements, which come from separate environments, form the uniqueness of the
artist’s research which“articulates the spectrum of poetic references as a vocabulary of real language, able
to transcend time of history, experience and expression”. (Denys Zacharopoulos).The artwork represents a
confused reality in which the work has been extended to an infinite present, removed from the flow of the
story. By suspending time, Calzolari takes the viewer to another dimension, in which the objects are
superimposed with a delicate and silent poetry.
Marco Scifo focuses on human presence-sparked by several previous studies regarding the amount of
physical space occupied by the body-which becomes an instrument of measure of space.In Pneuma the
focal point of this research is the movement from the macro to micro relationship between the body and the
mind: the breathing pattern creates the work’s rhythm. The decision to represent the concept of thought as
an action tied to the body-such as breathing-which by its very nature represents the antithesis of the
universe of the mind transcending any connection with the matter, residesin the absolute necessity of
contamination between the body and the mind.
In the exhibition space the work is composed of two elements: the full size portrait of Plato made of black
rubber and a pump, which inflates the philosopher's head repeatedly. In Pneuma time and its cyclical
nature are reflected in the metaphor of the historical remnants, as an icon of time that traverses history and
continues into the recent past, creating a connection between the past and present.The relationship
between thought and life occupies the length of a single breath.
Z2O Galleria l Sara Zanin via della Vetrina 21, 00186 Roma T. +39 06 70452261 [email protected]
Orario di apertura: da martedì a sabato 11:00 - 19:00 (o su appuntamento)
Z2O Galleria l Sara Zanin
INFORMATION
Exhibition: EntreNous | Artists: Pier Paolo Calzolari, Marco Maria Giuseppe Scifo
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September 25 – November 10 , 2014 | Opening: Thursday, September 25 , 2014 h. 18-20
Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin – Via della Vetrina 21 00186 Rome (Italy) | Opening Hours: Tuesday – Sarturday from 12 a.m. to 7
p.m. (or by appointment). Free entrace | For additional information: +39 06 704 522 61 - [email protected] www.z2ogalleria.it
Pier Paolo Calzolari (Bologna, IT, 1943) lives and works in Fossombrone, Italy. His works has been presented in numerous solo
exhibitions: Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna Ca ’ Pesaro, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght , Galerie Nationale du Jeu
de Paume, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Civica di Modena, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Villa delle Rose,
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain. From 1967, he has participated in several exhibition: “Where are we going? Opere
scelte dalla Collezione François Pinault,” Palazzo Grassi – François Pinault Foundation, “Notations/Forms of Contingency: New
York and Turin 1960/1970s,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, “Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-‐ 1972,” Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
Tate Modern, London, “Arte Povera,” Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota, “The Italian Metamorphosis, 1943-‐1972,”
Triennale, Milan, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, “The Knot Arte Povera, P.S.1, P.S.1,
New York, “Prospect ’68,” Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, “Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en cryptostructuren,” Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam, “Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form/Works, Concepts, Processes, Situations, Information,”
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern (CH); and he takes part in a several arts festival: 52. Biennale di Venezia, XLIV Esposizione Internazionale
d’Arte, section: Ambiente Berlino, XIL Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia, VII Biennale di Parigi: manifestation biennale et
international de jeunes artists, Paris, XII Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Documenta IX, Documenta V, Kassel.
Marco Maria Giuseppe Scifo born in Augusta, Italy,1977, lives and works in Milan, Italy. Projects and exhibition: "Habitat" (text by
Antonello Tolve), Z2O Galleria | Sara Zanin, Rome, Italy, (2013); "Laboratorio habitat", Cultural Ass. beBOCS, Catania, Italy (2012);
"Project Space", Molins Interiors, Barcellona, Spain (2012); “Running Glance” (curated by Antonello Tolve), Z2O Galleria Sara
Zanin, Rome, Italy (2011); “Eye Run”, (curated by Antonello Tolve), Gallerie du Centre Culturel Français de Milan - Palazzo delle
Stelline, Milan, Italy (2010); “Apicoltura”, Gallerie du Tableau, Marsiglia, France (2007); Galleria Unorossodue, Milan, Italy (2005).
Group Exhibition: “Digital Life. Human Connections", MACRO Testaccio, Rome, Italy (2013); “Antologia di un progetto", Galleria
Biagiotti, Florence, Italy (2013); “13 ° Premio Cairo" (curated by Luca Beatrice), Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy (2012); “Il
Quinto Atto” (curated by Helga Marsala), Galleria Biagiotti, Florence, Italy (2011 - 12); “ShowTime” (curated by Antonello Tolve),
Galleria ZAK, Monteriggioni SI, Italy (2011); “Temporaneamente Nuovi - Torano Giorno e Notte XIII” (curated by Maria Mancini),
Torano Ca, Italy (2011); “54 ° Esposizione Internazionale d’arte di Venezia Illuminazioni – Padiglione Italia – Accademie” (curated
by Vittorio Sgarbi), Arsenale – Tese di San Cristoforo, Venice, Italy (2011); “Festival Ex Polis – Le città fuori dalla città” (curated by
M. M. Linzi e Massimo Mazzone), Triennale Milano, Milan, Italy (2011); “Open 13”Esposizione Internazionale di Scultura (curated
by Paolo De Grandis), Venice, San Servolo island, Italy (2010); “Seconda edizione del Concorso Internazionale per Giovani
Scultori” Foundation Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (2008); “Pericoloso Sporgersi” (curated by Stefania Meazza and Catherine
Macchi) l'Atelier Soardi, Nizza, France (2008); Museo Gennaro Pérez, Cordoba, Argentina (2008). “Parking” Galleria Unorossodue,
Milan, Italy (2005); “Da lontano era un’isola” C/O Careof and Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy (2004).
Z2O Galleria l Sara Zanin via della Vetrina 21, 00186 Roma T. +39 06 70452261 [email protected]
Orario di apertura: da martedì a sabato 11:00 - 19:00 (o su appuntamento)

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