until Monday September 30 2019

MADRE - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina
T : +39 081 56 24 561
via Settembrini, 79
80122 Naples
Italy

Forty years after the last exhibition in a public space in Naples (Villa Pignatelli, 1977), the Fondazione Donnaregina per le arti contemporanee presents Painting as a Butterfly, the first major retrospective dedicated exclusively to the pictorial and drawing production of Pier Paolo Calzolari (Bologna, 1943), one of the most important contemporary Italian artists, exponent since the Sixties of the researches related to Arte Povera.
The exhibition at the Madre museum, organized in close collaboration with the Fondazione Calzolari and curated by Achille Bonito Oliva and Andrea Viliani, starts on the third floor and continues on the second floor in the four Facade Galleries (also entering into dialogue with the facing frescoed room by Francesco Clemente) and on the ground floor in the Re_PUBBLICA Madre Gallery. It includes over 70 paintings, drawings and multimaterial works created from the mid-Sixties to the present, documenting all the main cycles and phases of the artist’s research.

Pier Paolo Calzolari: Painting as a Butterfly
From 08.06 till 30.09.2019