Antonio Calderara (1898-1976) - Orizzonte

Antonio Calderara (1898-1976), untitled (Horizons), 1971. No reserve price!

Screenprint on cardboard, 18 x 6 cm on 33 x 18 cm.
Back signed and dated. 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 postwar European art and is particularly known for his tightly 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 modulation, and a meditative treatment 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, Calderara’s paintings and works on paper are held in important museum collections and command steady demand on the international art market, particularly in the field of 20th-century Italian abstract art.