Antonio Calderara (1898-1976) - Orizzonte

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

Color screen print on cardboard, 18 × 6 cm on 33 × 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. 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 particularly known for his precisely composed, light-filled color-field images. After an early phase of figurative 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 movements 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 United States. Today, paintings and works on paper by Antonio Calderara are represented in major museum collections and command stable demand on the international art market, particularly in the field of 20th-century Italian abstract art.