Galleria Tommaso Calabro
Corso Italia 47
20122 Milan (Italy)
info@tommasocalabro.com
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News
March 02, 2024 - Selected Press
Financial Times, "Leonor Fini, the Surrealist who rejected Surrealism" di Kristina Foster [Cartaceo & online]
"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 [Print & Online]
"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 07, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at Independent 20th Century 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its participation to the art fair Independent 20th Century in New York for the second consecutive year.
The gallery will showcase a monographic presentation dedicated to the Italian artist Mario De Luigi (1901-1980), who was one of the major exponents of Spatialism in Italy. Our booth will focus on a selection of paintings from the most famous series by the artist, the so-called ‘grattage’, which De Luigi executed across a long period of time, from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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."
March 07, 2023 - News
"Alberto Moravia. I don’t know why I didn’t become a painter" at Gam Turin
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to participate in the exhibition "Alberto Moravia. I don’t know why I didn’t become a painter" at the GAM Turin, from March 7 to June 4, 2023, with the loan of two works from the collection: Leonor Fini, 'Juliette by Sade' (c. 1950) and Fabrizio Clerici, 'Piccola Confessione Palermitana' (1952).
The exhibition investigates the figure of Alberto Moravia, an illustrious protagonist on Italy’s art and intellectual scene for most of the 20th century, and aims to create an ideal collection of the artists that the writer esteemed and to whom he often dedicated his pen.
September 02, 2021 - News
Panorama Procida
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation to PANORAMA Procida, an island-wide exhibition organized by ITALICS in Procida (off the coast of Naples), curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, from Thursday, September 2 to Sunday, September 5, 2021, with a selection of photographs by Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
February 27, 2024 - News
Milano MuseoCity 2024 with the Archive of Fausta Squatriti
On the occasion of Milano MuseoCity 2024, from March 1-5, we present the Archive of Fausta Squatriti (1941), a Milanese artist, intellectual, publisher, writer and poet.
Through a selection of photographs, documents, drawings, objects and unpublished letters, the exhibition recounts Milan’s vibrant cultural life of the 1960s and 1970s, in which Squatriti was an absolute protagonist: from her collaboration with the gallerists Alexander Iolas and Renato Cardazzo, to her exchanges with Man Ray, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, to the founding of the historic Edizioni Tosi.
August 24, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at Frieze Masters 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its participation to the Main Section of Frieze Masters (Booth B11) in London for the second consecutive year, with a monographic presentation of the work of the Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1920-2005).
Simultaneously with the publication of Consagra's catalogue raisonnée of sculptures, and drawing from the past exhibition ‘Pietro Consagra. Immagini Vaganti,’ the gallery's booth will showcase a selection of iconic sculptures by Consagra, alongside pieces from lesser-known series by the artist, including examples of his ‘Bed sheets’ and unique sculpture-like pieces of furniture, exhibited on this occasion for the first time outside Italy.
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.
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 01, 2022 - News
Panorama Monopoli
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation in PANORAMA Monopoli, second edition of the city-wide exhibition presented by ITALICS and curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, from Thursday, September 1, 2022 to Sunday, September 4, 2022, with a sculpture by Pietro Consagra (1920-2005), Ferro trasparente rosa chiaro (1967).
February 09, 2021 - Events & Talks
CASA IOLAS. CITOFONARE VEZZOLI
Tommaso Calabro presents the exhibition catalogue "Casa Iolas. Citofonare Vezzoli" in conversation with artist Francesco Vezzoli and art historian and curator Luca Massimo Barbero.
January 25, 2024 - News
Inauguration of our new location in Milan
Tommaso Calabro gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new location in Milan.
The gallery is located in Corso Italia 47, in a nineteenth-century palazzo, Casa Grondona, which was once the residence of the industrialist Felice Grondona and designed by the architect Enrico Terzaghi in a Neo-Renaissance style.
July 15, 2023 - News
"Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. Insomnia" at MART rovereto
The exhibition "Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. Insomnia", curated by Denis Isaia and Giulia Tulino, opens on July 15, 2023, at Mart Rovereto.
With the loan of works by Leonor Fini, Fabrizio Clerici and Stanislao Lepri, the Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to this important project, fostering the rediscovery of Italian artists linked to the Surrealist movement.
With over four-hundred works of different media, the exhibition celebrates the intense friendship and artistic alliance that linked Fini and Clerici from the 1940s onwards, and places them in further dialogue with fellow artists, including Lepri, who were their teachers, mentors, friends, companions and heirs.
Photo: Leonor Fini e Fabrizio Clerici, Nonza, anni Sessanta. Foto di Eddy Brofferio © Archivio Eros Renzetti, Roma
June 22, 2023 - News
"Contemporary Domus" at Galleria Civica Trento
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is very pleased to contribute to the exhibition "Contemporary Domus" at the Galleria Civica in Trento (June 22 - November 26, 2023), with the loan of Francesco Vezzoli's work 'Iolas the Great' (2020).
The exhibition, curated by Margherita de Pilati and Andrea Viliani, is organised to celebrate the reopening of the remains of the Roman Villa of Orpheus in Trento, a residence built between the 1st and the 2nd Century AD.
The show includes twenty-nine modern and contemporary artists who have looked at archaeology and ancient history in their practice, engaging with the classical world through appropriations and reinventions.
April 06, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at miart 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation for the first time to miart fair during the April 2023 edition.
The gallery's booth will investigate the relationship between the fair and the network of galleries operating in Milan. How can an art fair encourage visitors to go visit these galleries and their exhibitions in person?
October 28, 2021 - News
VENICE TIME CASE
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to host "Venice Time Case", the first chapter of an itinerant project curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. Fifty works executed by fifty emerging artists based in Venice and its surroundings will be transported to the gallery inside five Fly Case suitcases and shown to the public for the first time. The works will later be exhibited across Europe, to eventually enter the collection of a contemporary art museum.
August 31, 2020 - News
Anticamera Iolas
"Anticamera Iolas. Materiali d’Archivio" is a display of archival material relating to the galleries of the legendary Greek art dealer Alexander Iolas (1907–1987). The show presents more than forty catalogues and over thirty original posters printed on the occasion of the exhibitions staged by Iolas at his galleries in Athens, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris and Rome. The exhibition set-up, which includes Iolas’ own desk, is designed by Filippo Bisagni.
March 02, 2024 - Selected Press
Financial Times, "Leonor Fini, the Surrealist who rejected Surrealism" di Kristina Foster [Cartaceo & online]
"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.”
February 27, 2024 - News
Milano MuseoCity 2024 with the Archive of Fausta Squatriti
On the occasion of Milano MuseoCity 2024, from March 1-5, we present the Archive of Fausta Squatriti (1941), a Milanese artist, intellectual, publisher, writer and poet.
Through a selection of photographs, documents, drawings, objects and unpublished letters, the exhibition recounts Milan’s vibrant cultural life of the 1960s and 1970s, in which Squatriti was an absolute protagonist: from her collaboration with the gallerists Alexander Iolas and Renato Cardazzo, to her exchanges with Man Ray, Niki de Saint Phalle, Yves Klein and Jean Tinguely, to the founding of the historic Edizioni Tosi.
January 25, 2024 - News
Inauguration of our new location in Milan
Tommaso Calabro gallery is pleased to announce the opening of its new location in Milan.
The gallery is located in Corso Italia 47, in a nineteenth-century palazzo, Casa Grondona, which was once the residence of the industrialist Felice Grondona and designed by the architect Enrico Terzaghi in a Neo-Renaissance style.
September 07, 2023 - Selected Press
The New York Times, "An Expansive Art History at the Independent Art Fair" by Will Heinrich [Print & Online]
"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."
August 24, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at Frieze Masters 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its participation to the Main Section of Frieze Masters (Booth B11) in London for the second consecutive year, with a monographic presentation of the work of the Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra (1920-2005).
Simultaneously with the publication of Consagra's catalogue raisonnée of sculptures, and drawing from the past exhibition ‘Pietro Consagra. Immagini Vaganti,’ the gallery's booth will showcase a selection of iconic sculptures by Consagra, alongside pieces from lesser-known series by the artist, including examples of his ‘Bed sheets’ and unique sculpture-like pieces of furniture, exhibited on this occasion for the first time outside Italy.
July 15, 2023 - News
"Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. Insomnia" at MART rovereto
The exhibition "Leonor Fini Fabrizio Clerici. Insomnia", curated by Denis Isaia and Giulia Tulino, opens on July 15, 2023, at Mart Rovereto.
With the loan of works by Leonor Fini, Fabrizio Clerici and Stanislao Lepri, the Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to this important project, fostering the rediscovery of Italian artists linked to the Surrealist movement.
With over four-hundred works of different media, the exhibition celebrates the intense friendship and artistic alliance that linked Fini and Clerici from the 1940s onwards, and places them in further dialogue with fellow artists, including Lepri, who were their teachers, mentors, friends, companions and heirs.
Photo: Leonor Fini e Fabrizio Clerici, Nonza, anni Sessanta. Foto di Eddy Brofferio © Archivio Eros Renzetti, Roma
July 07, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at Independent 20th Century 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its participation to the art fair Independent 20th Century in New York for the second consecutive year.
The gallery will showcase a monographic presentation dedicated to the Italian artist Mario De Luigi (1901-1980), who was one of the major exponents of Spatialism in Italy. Our booth will focus on a selection of paintings from the most famous series by the artist, the so-called ‘grattage’, which De Luigi executed across a long period of time, from the 1950s to the 1970s.
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 22, 2023 - News
"Contemporary Domus" at Galleria Civica Trento
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is very pleased to contribute to the exhibition "Contemporary Domus" at the Galleria Civica in Trento (June 22 - November 26, 2023), with the loan of Francesco Vezzoli's work 'Iolas the Great' (2020).
The exhibition, curated by Margherita de Pilati and Andrea Viliani, is organised to celebrate the reopening of the remains of the Roman Villa of Orpheus in Trento, a residence built between the 1st and the 2nd Century AD.
The show includes twenty-nine modern and contemporary artists who have looked at archaeology and ancient history in their practice, engaging with the classical world through appropriations and reinventions.
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."
April 06, 2023 - News
Galleria Tommaso Calabro at miart 2023
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation for the first time to miart fair during the April 2023 edition.
The gallery's booth will investigate the relationship between the fair and the network of galleries operating in Milan. How can an art fair encourage visitors to go visit these galleries and their exhibitions in person?
March 07, 2023 - News
"Alberto Moravia. I don’t know why I didn’t become a painter" at Gam Turin
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to participate in the exhibition "Alberto Moravia. I don’t know why I didn’t become a painter" at the GAM Turin, from March 7 to June 4, 2023, with the loan of two works from the collection: Leonor Fini, 'Juliette by Sade' (c. 1950) and Fabrizio Clerici, 'Piccola Confessione Palermitana' (1952).
The exhibition investigates the figure of Alberto Moravia, an illustrious protagonist on Italy’s art and intellectual scene for most of the 20th century, and aims to create an ideal collection of the artists that the writer esteemed and to whom he often dedicated his pen.
September 01, 2022 - News
Panorama Monopoli
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation in PANORAMA Monopoli, second edition of the city-wide exhibition presented by ITALICS and curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, from Thursday, September 1, 2022 to Sunday, September 4, 2022, with a sculpture by Pietro Consagra (1920-2005), Ferro trasparente rosa chiaro (1967).
October 28, 2021 - News
VENICE TIME CASE
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to host "Venice Time Case", the first chapter of an itinerant project curated by Luca Massimo Barbero. Fifty works executed by fifty emerging artists based in Venice and its surroundings will be transported to the gallery inside five Fly Case suitcases and shown to the public for the first time. The works will later be exhibited across Europe, to eventually enter the collection of a contemporary art museum.
September 02, 2021 - News
Panorama Procida
The Galleria Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its participation to PANORAMA Procida, an island-wide exhibition organized by ITALICS in Procida (off the coast of Naples), curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, from Thursday, September 2 to Sunday, September 5, 2021, with a selection of photographs by Andy Warhol (1928-1987).
February 09, 2021 - Events & Talks
CASA IOLAS. CITOFONARE VEZZOLI
Tommaso Calabro presents the exhibition catalogue "Casa Iolas. Citofonare Vezzoli" in conversation with artist Francesco Vezzoli and art historian and curator Luca Massimo Barbero.
August 31, 2020 - News
Anticamera Iolas
"Anticamera Iolas. Materiali d’Archivio" is a display of archival material relating to the galleries of the legendary Greek art dealer Alexander Iolas (1907–1987). The show presents more than forty catalogues and over thirty original posters printed on the occasion of the exhibitions staged by Iolas at his galleries in Athens, Geneva, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris and Rome. The exhibition set-up, which includes Iolas’ own desk, is designed by Filippo Bisagni.