Centre for Contemporary Culture at Palazzo Strozzi

Palazzo Strozzi

GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ

Clessidra from Scolpire il tempo, 2010
Bronze
cm 180 x 40 x 40
Courtesy the artist

The quest for a form of time has defined a whole imagination of the ancient. Time transforms, alters pre-existing forms. Giorgio Andreotta Calò ties the concept of contemporary to a much larger temporal dimension. In his sculptures, time is translated through the combination of horizontal and vertical coordinates, which produce erosion or sedimentation and represent the relationship between nature and man. The series of works Clessidra consists of wooden poles used to moor boats in the Venetian Lagoon, worn by the tides and the incessant movement of maritime traffic. Tapering in the middle, these poles are the place of a tension between their own verticality and the horizontality of the water surface, which eventually reaches an unsustainable limit.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò was born in 1979 in Venice, Italy. He lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. His solo exhibitions include: La sculpture langue morte, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, Paris(2014); La scultura lingua morta, WilfriedLentz, Rotterdam (2014); level, Peep-Hole @Fonderia Battaglia, Milan (2014); 08.09.2012- 21.10.2012, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (2012); 22 luglio 1911 / 22 luglio 2011, Premio Lum per l’arte contemporanea,Teatro Margherita, Bari (2011). Among his group shows we note: Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (2014); The Volkskrant Art Prize 2014, Stedelijk MuseumSchiedam, Schiedam (2014); Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012, MAXXI, Rome (2012); ILLUMInazioni / ILLUMInations, 54. Venice Biennale, Venice (2011); SI – Sindrome Italiana, la jeune création artistique italienne, Magasin- Centre National d’Art contempora in de Grenoble, Grenoble (2010).

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