STEFANO CALLIGARO / NICOLAS TOURON
Curated by Davide Rosi Degli Esposti & Giulia Allegri

Opening: Thursday November 16 2006  6 – 9 p.m.

November 16 2006 – January 13 2007

Agenzia04 is pleased to announce the opening of the double solo show by Stefano Calligaro and Nicolas Touron.
This project has been conceived as a face to face presentation of two of the most interesting emerging artists in the international scene focusing on sculpture and drawing.
Sculpture and drawing are receiving more and more attention by young artistic research. The show tries to build connections between the two artists’ work and highlight a reciprocal exchange among them.

Stefano Calligaro (born 1976, lives and works in Padova) works on sculpture and drawing creating a personal and unique artistic language. His abstract structures take form on the total works installation and settle down a reciprocal relationship.
Attracted by the young entertainment world such as skateboards, magazines, t-shirts, beer labels, the artist uses an arsenal of images and materials to explore the collision between them and their effect on different territories. Grip tape, wood and other materials alternate one another in a colorful and unstable landscape.
Stefano Calligaro’s sculptures enter a space which is not regulated by the laws of traditional perspectives, but shapes are organised according to a logic of successive levels and create unpredictable structures representing a personal aesthetic idea.
Both on drawings and sculptures shapes take form between a figurative and non figurative three-dimensional space where the abstraction provides to the artist the way of investigating on architecture.

Nicolas Touron (born 1970 in France, lives and works in New York) uses drawings, paintings and sculpture to transcribe small details from his memory into a whimsical aesthetic.
His work mixes his absurd and sophisticated wit, but it is executed with a touch of both the simplicity and cruelty of a child’s eye.
On his drawings a large repertory of colored images from various origins and referring to different worlds often fills a small part of the sheet leaving the white to balance the image and create a strange equilibrium and unstable energy.
He assembles casts of strange animals or toys and train tracks into sculptures that seem as though they are just about to topple over. The rigid materiality of household objects is transformed into illogical fantasies whose architecture is supple enough to allow the most unfathomable realities to seem at ease.

For further information please contact Giulia Allegri  ph. +39 333 3781246  e-mail gallegri@agenzia04.com

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