Tommaso Calabro S.r.l.
Corso Italia 47
20122 Milan (Italy)
info@tommasocalabro.com
+39 0249696387
News
October 02, 2025 - Selected Press
la Repubblica, Tommaso Calabro "Amidst the ups and downs of artists, my passion for surrealism and research" by Simone Mosca
"With one location at Corso Italia 47 and another in Venice, [Tommaso Calabro] tells us how the market is moving and why the next few years will be decisive."
July 05, 2025 - Selected Press
D la Repubblica, "That summer, it was just me, my knee, and our shared sorrow"
Adelisa Selimbašić is featured in the latest D la Repubblica issue Corpo Libero. Details Flowers, a series of works created for the project The space in between at Tommaso Calabro Milano, accompany an essay by Chiara Barzini.
February 21, 2025 - Selected Press
Il SOLE 24 ORE, "Tommaso Calabro: no art fairs and a pop-up space in New York” by Silvia Anna Barrilà
“Italian gallerist Tommaso Calabro, with locations in Milan and Venice, is opening a pop-up space in New York. It will be in Chelsea, on 23rd Street, in an area dense with galleries, and will be open from May 1 to 31, one of the most crucial periods for the international art market, with major houses’ auctions and the art fairs Frieze and Independent.”
September 01, 2024 - Selected Press
Living, “Tommaso Calabro. My Twentieth Century” by Michela Moro
"It is perhaps not as central as a gallery should be, but it has great charm and meets the requirements perfectly: single entrance, large exhibition spaces and access to my apartment.» Very elegant is the home-workshop of the 34-year-old gallery owner who has chosen to divide his time between Milan and Venice: "I decided to open a gallery here because it is a city unlike any other, a city that is very connected to art, that attracts collectors and interested people all year round, especially international ones, and with a complementary universe to Milan."
March 02, 2024 - Selected Press
Financial Times, "Leonor Fini, the Surrealist who rejected Surrealism" by Kristina Foster
"Visitors to Tommaso Calabro’s booth at the Tefaf art and antiques fair will find themselves confronted by an enigmatic portrait. A young, olive-skinned woman, chestnut hair piled high, emerging from a sea of pastel brushstrokes. She looks off to one side, self-contained and content in her own dreamlike world.
The portrait’s painter, the Italian-Argentine Surrealist Leonor Fini, was similarly self-possessed, a woman who lived and painted on her own terms. [...] “Everything she did was unprecedented,” says Calabro, who exhibits at the fair for the first time with a selection of paintings and works on paper by Fini, Lepri and their friend and fellow Surrealist Fabrizio Clerici. “She managed to conduct a life the way she wanted even if that meant sometimes the art world didn’t really see her for the artist that she was back then.”
June 01, 2023 - Selected Press
Beaux Arts, "Une Marche des fiertés d’avant-garde" by Pierre Morio
"Nine giants in rainbow-coloured robes march in single line. The procession is somewhat enigmatic: who are these oversized figures? Are they the participants of a sad Pride march, with no cart or festive parade? What are the people at their feet fleeing?” Painted in 1970, the work, with the evocative title Les dieux s'en vont (The Gods are leaving), was made by Stanislao Lepri (1905-1980), an imaginative Italian aristocrat and diplomat, whose work is being rediscovered in an exhibition in Milan. Freed from the shackles of his social status, he abandoned his political career and became a painter, supported by his partner, the artist Leonor Fini. His strange and ambiguous canvases create a world a dark and dreamlike world. “His fantasy is never gratuitous: originating from his deepest self, it meets thecollective unconscious of our time and reflects our anxieties back to us,sweetened by a smiling irony, a tolerant wisdom,” said Constantin Jelenski, Polish man of letters and third figure in Fini's ménage à trois. His sexual freedom, as well as his artistic freedom, unhindered by dogma or certainties, made him a pioneer of the avant-garde."
September 12, 2025 - Selected Press
Marie Claire maison, "72H À VENISE AVEC ALESSIA GARIBALDI" by Ane Desnos-Bré
“You must pass through the carriage entrance and climb the stone staircase to reach the main floor of this 14th-century palace, home to Tommaso Calabro's gallery. Continue on to his adjoining apartment, where works are displayed in every room, including the kitchen and bathroom. A specialist in modern Italian and international art, he has been exhibiting in Venice since 2024 and in Milan since 2018, showcasing renowned but forgotten 20th-century artists, such as the prolific surrealist Leonor Fini. Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo 2177.”
June 12, 2025 - Selected Press
Flash Art, "Narrating what was already there” by Cristiano Seganfreddo
“Tommaso Calabro is not your typical gallerist. Intellectual, curious, and radically free, he chose to carve out a path that is quite romantic in its dedication to research, curatorial vision, and a genuine love for the eccentric and erudite figures of the twentieth century— often overlooked by the art system. His galleries – from Milan to Venice to New York – are not simply exhibition spaces, but stages for new historical readings, where archives meet intuition, and time is not a straight line but a shifting ocean. In this conversation, Calabro shares his method, his choices and his obsessions – and he claims his right not to follow trends.”
December 27, 2024 - Selected Press
Wall Street Journal - Mansion, "The Second-Home Buyers Taking Venice Back From the Tourists" by J.S. Marcus
"Calabro, who currently divides his time between Venice and Milan, where his gallery has another branch, is part of a new wave of second-home buyers reinvigorating historic Venice’s residential sector."
June 26, 2024 - Selected Press
Vogue Italia, “FROM AVANT-GARDE TO ICON” by Silvia Macchetto
"In 1987 L'Uomo Vogue published a photo by Oliviero Toscani full of testosterone: posing are seven Milanese gallery owners, young, serious and fierce in suits and ties, with the ambition to provoke and renew the market. [...] Today that the flow of ideas runs on the net as well as the market, opening up horizons without boundaries, the scene of gallery owners has also changed. With this remake of the 1987 photo we want to document it: in the selection you see on these pages there are in fact many young people and especially many women whom we brought together at Bar Basso, one of the art world's favorite meeting places."
September 07, 2023 - Selected Press
The New York Times, "An Expansive Art History at the Independent Art Fair" by Will Heinrich
"I almost walked past a group of what the Italian Spatialist Mario Deluigi called “grattages,” monochromes this Milan-based gallery said are making their debut in New York. They’re easy to misunderstand — they can look like upholstery — but fortunately some instinct pulled me back and I discovered that they’re almost shockingly gorgeous. Covered in intricate networks of tiny white scratches, they offer starscapes, cave drawings, the glowing wool of primordial sheep, and patterns reminiscent of calligraphy or circles of dancers à la Matisse."
April 26, 2023 - Selected Press
Panorama, "In a parallel world of dreams, rhinos and a few angels" by Vittorio Sgarbi
"The research of a young, truly capable and tenacious Milanese gallerist, Tommaso Calabro, on the protagonists of that world of artists, separated and isolated from the dominant course of contemporary art, continues. Exemplary, in this sense, appears, after a small exhibition on Leonor Fini, Calabro's proposal of the submerged and forgotten Stanislao Lepri. [...] The laborious research of a private gallery allows us to reflect again on the substance of Lepri's dreams, endowed with an astonishing imagination that manifests itself in an iconographic variety, unprecedented in 20th Century painting. Lepri is a supremely esoteric painter, curious about the dark side of our consciousness and the dreamlike consistency of our relationship with reality. But does reality exist, or is it determined by our state of mind and our dreams? Lepri questions everything. [...] An irreducible fantasy, among rhinoceroses and cats, in apocalyptic times when the gods go away, leaving behind a humanity of desperate people. But there is still hope as long as an angel maker survives, generous and solemn."
September 11, 2025 - Selected Press
Artnet, "Are We Finally Ready for Harold Stevenson and the 'Biggest Nude in the World'?" by William Van Meter
Our New York pop-up gallery pop-up, open for one month in May 2025, featured in the article "Are We Finally Ready for Harold Stevenson and the 'Biggest Nude in the World'?" by William Van Meter among the recent exhibitions that continues to expand research on the American artist Harold Stevenson.
May 17, 2025 - Selected Press
Sky Arte, "Man Ray's ready-mades in Venice"
“Through this exhibition, Tommaso Calabro’s Venice location reaffirms its dedication to rediscovering Surrealism and showcasing works by famous and lesser-known figures of the movement. The exhibition pays tribute to the multifaceted genius of Man Ray, whose groundbreaking and revolutionary creative approach has left an enduring mark on the history of art.”
November 01, 2024 - Selected Press
Giornale dell'Arte, “The Surrealism market. A hundred years later, more popular than ever: a source of dreams and great deals” by Elena Correggia
"I think that the interest in Surrealism has grown partly because of the recognition of its importance in the history of the 20th century, and partly because of the emerging preference for figurative language.However, there is still room for growth for many figures, starting with Leonor Fini and Stanislao Lepri, who experienced Surrealism in Paris in the 1940s, but also artists such as William Copley and Tiger Tateishi, who looked at this historical movement and took Alexander Iolas, the gallerist of Magritte and Max Ernst, as a mentor." - Tommaso Calabro.
June 12, 2024 - Selected Press
FINANCIAL TIMES, "We all want a piece of the ‘Picasso of Greece‘"
"Fassianos never achieved widespread global recognition. But since his death in 2022, at the age of 86, there has been a wave of renewed interest. Last year, Tommaso Calabro in Milan held a solo exhibition of his paintings and works on paper."
July 01, 2023 - Selected Press
Flash Art Italia, "Without nostalgia. FRANCESCO VEZZOLI in conversation with FRANCESCO STOCCHI"
Images from our past exhibition Casa Iolas. Citofonare Vezzoli, curated by Francesco Vezzoli in 2020-2021, are featured on the latest issue of Flash Art Italia. On the occasion of the exhibition VITA DULCIS. Paura e desiderio nell’Impero Romano at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Francesco Vezzoli talks with Francesco Stocchi about his choices and vision as a curator.
October 02, 2025 - Selected Press
la Repubblica, Tommaso Calabro "Amidst the ups and downs of artists, my passion for surrealism and research" by Simone Mosca
"With one location at Corso Italia 47 and another in Venice, [Tommaso Calabro] tells us how the market is moving and why the next few years will be decisive."
September 12, 2025 - Selected Press
Marie Claire maison, "72H À VENISE AVEC ALESSIA GARIBALDI" by Ane Desnos-Bré
“You must pass through the carriage entrance and climb the stone staircase to reach the main floor of this 14th-century palace, home to Tommaso Calabro's gallery. Continue on to his adjoining apartment, where works are displayed in every room, including the kitchen and bathroom. A specialist in modern Italian and international art, he has been exhibiting in Venice since 2024 and in Milan since 2018, showcasing renowned but forgotten 20th-century artists, such as the prolific surrealist Leonor Fini. Palazzo Donà Brusa, Campo San Polo 2177.”
September 11, 2025 - Selected Press
Artnet, "Are We Finally Ready for Harold Stevenson and the 'Biggest Nude in the World'?" by William Van Meter
Our New York pop-up gallery pop-up, open for one month in May 2025, featured in the article "Are We Finally Ready for Harold Stevenson and the 'Biggest Nude in the World'?" by William Van Meter among the recent exhibitions that continues to expand research on the American artist Harold Stevenson.
July 05, 2025 - Selected Press
D la Repubblica, "That summer, it was just me, my knee, and our shared sorrow"
Adelisa Selimbašić is featured in the latest D la Repubblica issue Corpo Libero. Details Flowers, a series of works created for the project The space in between at Tommaso Calabro Milano, accompany an essay by Chiara Barzini.
June 12, 2025 - Selected Press
Flash Art, "Narrating what was already there” by Cristiano Seganfreddo
“Tommaso Calabro is not your typical gallerist. Intellectual, curious, and radically free, he chose to carve out a path that is quite romantic in its dedication to research, curatorial vision, and a genuine love for the eccentric and erudite figures of the twentieth century— often overlooked by the art system. His galleries – from Milan to Venice to New York – are not simply exhibition spaces, but stages for new historical readings, where archives meet intuition, and time is not a straight line but a shifting ocean. In this conversation, Calabro shares his method, his choices and his obsessions – and he claims his right not to follow trends.”
May 17, 2025 - Selected Press
Sky Arte, "Man Ray's ready-mades in Venice"
“Through this exhibition, Tommaso Calabro’s Venice location reaffirms its dedication to rediscovering Surrealism and showcasing works by famous and lesser-known figures of the movement. The exhibition pays tribute to the multifaceted genius of Man Ray, whose groundbreaking and revolutionary creative approach has left an enduring mark on the history of art.”
February 21, 2025 - Selected Press
Il SOLE 24 ORE, "Tommaso Calabro: no art fairs and a pop-up space in New York” by Silvia Anna Barrilà
“Italian gallerist Tommaso Calabro, with locations in Milan and Venice, is opening a pop-up space in New York. It will be in Chelsea, on 23rd Street, in an area dense with galleries, and will be open from May 1 to 31, one of the most crucial periods for the international art market, with major houses’ auctions and the art fairs Frieze and Independent.”
December 27, 2024 - Selected Press
Wall Street Journal - Mansion, "The Second-Home Buyers Taking Venice Back From the Tourists" by J.S. Marcus
"Calabro, who currently divides his time between Venice and Milan, where his gallery has another branch, is part of a new wave of second-home buyers reinvigorating historic Venice’s residential sector."
November 01, 2024 - Selected Press
Giornale dell'Arte, “The Surrealism market. A hundred years later, more popular than ever: a source of dreams and great deals” by Elena Correggia
"I think that the interest in Surrealism has grown partly because of the recognition of its importance in the history of the 20th century, and partly because of the emerging preference for figurative language.However, there is still room for growth for many figures, starting with Leonor Fini and Stanislao Lepri, who experienced Surrealism in Paris in the 1940s, but also artists such as William Copley and Tiger Tateishi, who looked at this historical movement and took Alexander Iolas, the gallerist of Magritte and Max Ernst, as a mentor." - Tommaso Calabro.
September 01, 2024 - Selected Press
Living, “Tommaso Calabro. My Twentieth Century” by Michela Moro
"It is perhaps not as central as a gallery should be, but it has great charm and meets the requirements perfectly: single entrance, large exhibition spaces and access to my apartment.» Very elegant is the home-workshop of the 34-year-old gallery owner who has chosen to divide his time between Milan and Venice: "I decided to open a gallery here because it is a city unlike any other, a city that is very connected to art, that attracts collectors and interested people all year round, especially international ones, and with a complementary universe to Milan."
June 26, 2024 - Selected Press
Vogue Italia, “FROM AVANT-GARDE TO ICON” by Silvia Macchetto
"In 1987 L'Uomo Vogue published a photo by Oliviero Toscani full of testosterone: posing are seven Milanese gallery owners, young, serious and fierce in suits and ties, with the ambition to provoke and renew the market. [...] Today that the flow of ideas runs on the net as well as the market, opening up horizons without boundaries, the scene of gallery owners has also changed. With this remake of the 1987 photo we want to document it: in the selection you see on these pages there are in fact many young people and especially many women whom we brought together at Bar Basso, one of the art world's favorite meeting places."
June 12, 2024 - Selected Press
FINANCIAL TIMES, "We all want a piece of the ‘Picasso of Greece‘"
"Fassianos never achieved widespread global recognition. But since his death in 2022, at the age of 86, there has been a wave of renewed interest. Last year, Tommaso Calabro in Milan held a solo exhibition of his paintings and works on paper."
March 02, 2024 - Selected Press
Financial Times, "Leonor Fini, the Surrealist who rejected Surrealism" by Kristina Foster
"Visitors to Tommaso Calabro’s booth at the Tefaf art and antiques fair will find themselves confronted by an enigmatic portrait. A young, olive-skinned woman, chestnut hair piled high, emerging from a sea of pastel brushstrokes. She looks off to one side, self-contained and content in her own dreamlike world.
The portrait’s painter, the Italian-Argentine Surrealist Leonor Fini, was similarly self-possessed, a woman who lived and painted on her own terms. [...] “Everything she did was unprecedented,” says Calabro, who exhibits at the fair for the first time with a selection of paintings and works on paper by Fini, Lepri and their friend and fellow Surrealist Fabrizio Clerici. “She managed to conduct a life the way she wanted even if that meant sometimes the art world didn’t really see her for the artist that she was back then.”
September 07, 2023 - Selected Press
The New York Times, "An Expansive Art History at the Independent Art Fair" by Will Heinrich
"I almost walked past a group of what the Italian Spatialist Mario Deluigi called “grattages,” monochromes this Milan-based gallery said are making their debut in New York. They’re easy to misunderstand — they can look like upholstery — but fortunately some instinct pulled me back and I discovered that they’re almost shockingly gorgeous. Covered in intricate networks of tiny white scratches, they offer starscapes, cave drawings, the glowing wool of primordial sheep, and patterns reminiscent of calligraphy or circles of dancers à la Matisse."
July 01, 2023 - Selected Press
Flash Art Italia, "Without nostalgia. FRANCESCO VEZZOLI in conversation with FRANCESCO STOCCHI"
Images from our past exhibition Casa Iolas. Citofonare Vezzoli, curated by Francesco Vezzoli in 2020-2021, are featured on the latest issue of Flash Art Italia. On the occasion of the exhibition VITA DULCIS. Paura e desiderio nell’Impero Romano at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Francesco Vezzoli talks with Francesco Stocchi about his choices and vision as a curator.
June 01, 2023 - Selected Press
Beaux Arts, "Une Marche des fiertés d’avant-garde" by Pierre Morio
"Nine giants in rainbow-coloured robes march in single line. The procession is somewhat enigmatic: who are these oversized figures? Are they the participants of a sad Pride march, with no cart or festive parade? What are the people at their feet fleeing?” Painted in 1970, the work, with the evocative title Les dieux s'en vont (The Gods are leaving), was made by Stanislao Lepri (1905-1980), an imaginative Italian aristocrat and diplomat, whose work is being rediscovered in an exhibition in Milan. Freed from the shackles of his social status, he abandoned his political career and became a painter, supported by his partner, the artist Leonor Fini. His strange and ambiguous canvases create a world a dark and dreamlike world. “His fantasy is never gratuitous: originating from his deepest self, it meets thecollective unconscious of our time and reflects our anxieties back to us,sweetened by a smiling irony, a tolerant wisdom,” said Constantin Jelenski, Polish man of letters and third figure in Fini's ménage à trois. His sexual freedom, as well as his artistic freedom, unhindered by dogma or certainties, made him a pioneer of the avant-garde."
April 26, 2023 - Selected Press
Panorama, "In a parallel world of dreams, rhinos and a few angels" by Vittorio Sgarbi
"The research of a young, truly capable and tenacious Milanese gallerist, Tommaso Calabro, on the protagonists of that world of artists, separated and isolated from the dominant course of contemporary art, continues. Exemplary, in this sense, appears, after a small exhibition on Leonor Fini, Calabro's proposal of the submerged and forgotten Stanislao Lepri. [...] The laborious research of a private gallery allows us to reflect again on the substance of Lepri's dreams, endowed with an astonishing imagination that manifests itself in an iconographic variety, unprecedented in 20th Century painting. Lepri is a supremely esoteric painter, curious about the dark side of our consciousness and the dreamlike consistency of our relationship with reality. But does reality exist, or is it determined by our state of mind and our dreams? Lepri questions everything. [...] An irreducible fantasy, among rhinoceroses and cats, in apocalyptic times when the gods go away, leaving behind a humanity of desperate people. But there is still hope as long as an angel maker survives, generous and solemn."