STEFANO CALLIGARO

The nature of Stefano Calligaro's practice can be seen as a minimal intent to describe the construction of an artwork through layers of gestures as collecting displacing and remodeling found materials, images and meanings.
The works and their subtle presence in the space are tracing a constellation of references in constant dialogue with each other even when, in their misterious but simple essence, they look like hermetic compositions meant to translate in forms an untouchable and dry visual narration.

Born in Cividale del Friuli, Italy
Lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Selected solo exhibitions:

2009	Flat folding, White Heat, Stuttgart, D Arrangements, Agenzia04, Bologna, I Secondroom, Brussel, B Waldenaffairs, Den Haag, NL
2008	Lead origami, swingr, Wien, A
2007	Hard folk, kamerlaakkwartier, Den haag, NL
2006	Stefano Calligaro, agenzia 04, Bologna, I Appetite for abstraction, GC.AC, galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, I
2004	Tailgrab, Perugiartecontemporanea, Padova, I
2002	Theorytipe, Perugiartecontemporanea, Padova, I Blind Date, (with Alex Cecchetti), Via Farini, Milano, I

Selected group exhibitions

2009	Lobby, Cell project space, London, UK Theobject of the attack, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK And the wood said burn me, A locatie, Rotterdam, NL La meglio gioventu, GC.AC, galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, I BEyond, Duende, Rotterdam, NL Aumma aumma, Edinburgh Annuale, UK 2009 tHEMA, NP3, Groningen, NL tHEMA, NP3, Groningen, NL New italian epic, Brown project space, Milano, I
2008	Maninfesto scultura, Villa Manin Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Passariano, I Mondriaan download, Biagiotti progetto arte, Firenze, I 10.000 watt, Foundation b.a.d, Rotterdam, NL Het tijdelijk verblijf, Delft, NL Soft Cell, GC.AC, galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, I Soba Beograd, Belgrade, SR Arrivi e Partenze, Mole vanvitelliana, Ancona, I
2007	Albedo, Eleanor Harwood gallery, San Francisco, USA
2006	L’immagine sottile, GC.AC, galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, I Scale down, Galerie Eva Hober, Paris, F 2006 Pulse art fair, New York, USA Fiac, Paris, F
2005	No location relocation, Galleria Comunale Castel San Pietro, Bologna, I Art forum Berlin, Berlin, D Fiac, Paris, F Art Brussel, Brussel, B
2003	Issue n°1, Imprinting Area, Brescia, I Spazio Urbano, Palazzo Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto, I Imago,GC.AC, galleria comunale d’arte contemporanea, Monfalcone, I