Antonio Calderara (1898-1976) - Orizzonte

Antonio Calderara (1898-1976), untitled (Orizzonte), 1971.

Color screenprint on cardboard, 18 x 6 cm on 33 x 18 cm.
Signed and dated on the reverse. From an edition of 49.

Provenance: Edition Original 5 Hofhaus Presse Hans Möller, Düsseldorf/Hubbelrath; Private collection Berlin.

Condition: Very good condition. Photos are part of the condition description.

Biography
Antonio Calderara (1903–1978) was an Italian painter of concrete and geometric abstraction. He is regarded as a central figure of European post-war art and is especially known for his strictly composed, light-filled color-field paintings. After an early phase of representational painting, Calderara, from the 1950s, developed a reduced, abstract visual language based on clear geometric structures, subtle color modulations, and a meditative handling of light.

His works are closely connected with international currents such as Concrete Art and Minimalism. Calderara was a member of the group “Gruppo di ricerca estetica” and participated in major exhibitions in Europe and the USA. Today paintings and works on paper by Antonio Calderara are represented in important museum collections and command stable demand on the international art market, especially in the field of 20th-century Italian abstract art.