ANNEMARIE
VERNA
GALLERY

Antonio Calderara / Acquarelli / Aquarelle / Watercolors

February 13 to May 30, 2020

Opening on Thursday, February 13, 2020, from 6:00 to 8:00pm.
At the same time, Gallery Larkin Erdmann is opening the exhibition:
Antonio Calderara – Luce.

This exhibition is primarily dedicated to the watercolors of the painter Antonio Calderara. Suffused with delicate sensitivity, they are of particular and inestimable significance in the work of the artist. They have a firmly established value and occupy an important and varied position in his oeuvre.

An entire spectrum of characteristics of watercolor painting lends itself to playing an influential role in the creation process and genesis of the works. Light – the expansive and central theme of the painter – is made evident and visible in unique fashion.

The transparency of the watercolors, the delicate quality of the pigments, the small format of the paper and its texture, which gives the fast-drying paints a finely structured surface as part of the overall appearance: all these aspects enable the development and appraisal of ideas of form and color and image concepts. Moreover, the creation of these delicate pieces did not take up the same extended amount of time as required for the panel paintings with their many layers of paint.

A rather striking observation must be made here. Light, space, color as interconnected elements of a visually perceptible reality: this reference to reality in the work of the painter Antonio Calderara is conveyed in the watercolors through the transparency of the paint application, but in the panel paintings by the dense and closed-off surfaces, thereby exemplifying the same thing in an opposite manner.

For Antonio Calderara’s graphic work, a preparatory phase in watercolor form was just as indispensable, especially in the case of the "Cartelle", the portfolios. The fact that these watercolors exist as superb, independent originals is highly gratifying.

Particularly in his late creative years, Calderara realized a great wealth of form and color constellations in his graphic art. With the technique of serigraphy, he was inspired and delighted by the expansion of his creative possibilities that was thus afforded to him.

The first exhibition of Antonio Calderara in our gallery took place from October 29 to December 3, 1969. Over the years, our subsequent exhibition activities were accompanied by the publication of works of graphic art and portfolios by the artist.

All images here in the lightbox.

Installation views

Antonio Calderara / Acquarelli / Aquarelle / Watercolors

Installation view room 4

Installation view office room

Installation view room 1

Installation view room 2

Installation view room 3

Installation view room 4

Works

Orizzonte bicromo nel giallo
1968
11 x 14 cm
oil on wood

Senza titolo
1973
27 x 27 cm
oil on wood

Senza titolo
1972
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1972
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1972
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1972
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1970
14.8 x 14.2 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1960
19 x 19 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1953
12 x 15 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1972
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1973
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Senza titolo
1976
16 x 15.5 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Situazione in giallo
1971
9 parts, each 19 x 19 cm
pencil and watercolor on paper

Quadrati e rettangoli
1967
27 x 54 cm
oil on woodpanel

Spazio luce
1960
24 cm x 27 cm
oil on wood

New

Gallerynote 3/2026

Exhibition

James Bishop / Richard Tuttle
September 9 to November 6, 2026

New publications

Richard Tuttle
Complete Interviews 1970–2022
Edited and with a Preface Interview by Dieter Schwarz

Glen Rubsamen
The Petrified Forest
Publisher: Glen Rubsamen

Exhibitions / Insight

INSIGHT – ARTWORKS IN THE SPOTLIGHT #2, Paintings on Paper by James Bishop presents four works on paper by James Bishop. Created between 1956 and around 1993 they provide valid perspectives on an artistic oeuvre defined by an insistence on painting.

Giulio Paolini A.R.S. Scaenica, Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan , permanent installation

Giorgio Griffa Paths in the Forest, The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown (MA), through October 12, 2026

Agnes Martin Painting is not making paintings, Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, long-term view

Rita McBride LO·CO·MO·TIV, two person show with Sophie Tottie, Lokstallet Konsthallen, Strömstad, through September 27, 2026
Abstract Constructions, Nassos Daphnis - Rita McBride, Fondation CAB, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, FR, through October 25, 2026

Richard Tuttle | Giulio Paolini | Marisa Merz | Mario Merz
Long Story Short, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, through January 2027

Marisa Merz La danza delle ore, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM), Turin; Fondazione Merz, Turin; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, October 29, 2026 to April 4, 2027

Fred Sandback Cuts into Spaces (group show), Hall Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, ongoing
Negativa, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich, September 24 to December 16, 2026

Richard Tuttle Almost Sky, with Jun Aoki, Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, July 18 to September 23, 2026
Half-Light, Dia:Beacon, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, long-term view

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
Open Structure, Amorepacific Museum of Art, Seoul, through February 28, 2027
A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art, November 16, 2008 – 2033

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Antonio Calderara / Acquarelli / Aquarelle / Watercolors

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Works

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Exhibitions / Insight

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