Galleria Tommaso Calabro
Corso Italia 47
20122 Milan (Italy)
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November 05, 2024 - News
FLAMINIA VERONESI IN LONDON FOR SELFRIDGES CHRISTMAS WINDOWS
For this year’s Christmas window display, Selfridges has invited artist Flaminia Veronesi (1986) to bring her unique touch to its department store on Oxford Street in London. In each of the three displays of Play with Fantasy (2024), Veronesi has crafted parallel dimensions that explore the fantastic through diverse media and imaginaries, bringing together a perfect match for the enchantment of the holiday season.
September 27, 2024 - News
Tommaso Calabro at Asia NOW 2024
Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its first participation to Asia NOW 2024 in Paris with a monographic booth dedicated to the Japanese artist Tiger Tateishi (1941-1998).
Drawing on the exhibition "Tiger Tateishi" held at our Milan gallery earlier this year, our presentation will include a selection of works on paper and paintings produced from 1969 to 1975, during the artist’s stay in Milan and his travels in Europe.
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 docu-ment 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."
April 16, 2024 - News
Our new Venice gallery is opening soon!
Tommaso Calabro announces the opening of his new gallery in Venice in Campo San Polo, in the evocative setting of Palazzo Donà Brusa. The gallery will present monographic and group exhibitions of international scope, mainly dedicated to 20th century artists, more and less famous, often favouring their rediscovery and appreciation.
February 08, 2024 - News
TOMMASO CALABRO AT TEFAF 2024
Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its first participation to the Showcase Section of TEFAF Maastricht 2024, with a stand dedicated to the Surrealist movement, in the year when it celebrates its first one hundred years.
The presentation will include a selection of works by the Italian Surrealists Leonor Fini (1907-1996), Stanislao Lepri (1905-1980) and Fabrizio Clerici (1913-1993).
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.
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 14, 2024 - News
"Il Surrealismo e l'Italia" at Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma
With the loan of several works by Fabrizio Clerici, Stanislao Lepri and Leonor Fini, Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to the exhibition “Il Surrealismo e l'Italia”, from September 14 to December 15, 2024 at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma. Curated by Alice Ensabella, Alessandro Nigro and Stefano Roffi, the exhibition celebrates the centenary of the Surrealism's birth, one of the most decisive and long-lived avant-gardes of the 20th century, presenting its complex relationship with artists and the Italian cultural scene from the late 1920s to the late 1960s.
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.”
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
October 01, 2024 - News
Flaminia Veronesi is selected among the finalists of the Premio Cairo 2024
Congratulations to Flaminia Veronesi for being shortlisted as one of the finalists of the 23rd Premio Cairo. Veronesi’s work Draga, mostruoso femminile (2024) will be exhibited as part of the prize’s final exhibition from October 15 to October 20 at the Museo della Permanente in Milan.
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."
May 24, 2024 - News
Francesco Vezzoli in "Art at Home", Casa Cipriani Milano
“Art at Home” is the new project of Casa Cipriani Milano, a series of artistic dialogues involving 25 galleries in Milan. Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to the first edition of the project with the work “Portrait of Leonor Fini with Dancing Tears, 1971” (2022) by Francesco Vezzoli, exhibited in the Pickering Room.
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.
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 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.
November 05, 2024 - News
FLAMINIA VERONESI IN LONDON FOR SELFRIDGES CHRISTMAS WINDOWS
For this year’s Christmas window display, Selfridges has invited artist Flaminia Veronesi (1986) to bring her unique touch to its department store on Oxford Street in London. In each of the three displays of Play with Fantasy (2024), Veronesi has crafted parallel dimensions that explore the fantastic through diverse media and imaginaries, bringing together a perfect match for the enchantment of the holiday season.
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
October 01, 2024 - News
Flaminia Veronesi is selected among the finalists of the Premio Cairo 2024
Congratulations to Flaminia Veronesi for being shortlisted as one of the finalists of the 23rd Premio Cairo. Veronesi’s work Draga, mostruoso femminile (2024) will be exhibited as part of the prize’s final exhibition from October 15 to October 20 at the Museo della Permanente in Milan.
September 27, 2024 - News
Tommaso Calabro at Asia NOW 2024
Tommaso Calabro is pleased to announce its first participation to Asia NOW 2024 in Paris with a monographic booth dedicated to the Japanese artist Tiger Tateishi (1941-1998).
Drawing on the exhibition "Tiger Tateishi" held at our Milan gallery earlier this year, our presentation will include a selection of works on paper and paintings produced from 1969 to 1975, during the artist’s stay in Milan and his travels in Europe.
September 14, 2024 - News
"Il Surrealismo e l'Italia" at Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma
With the loan of several works by Fabrizio Clerici, Stanislao Lepri and Leonor Fini, Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to the exhibition “Il Surrealismo e l'Italia”, from September 14 to December 15, 2024 at the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Parma. Curated by Alice Ensabella, Alessandro Nigro and Stefano Roffi, the exhibition celebrates the centenary of the Surrealism's birth, one of the most decisive and long-lived avant-gardes of the 20th century, presenting its complex relationship with artists and the Italian cultural scene from the late 1920s to the late 1960s.
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 docu-ment 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."
May 24, 2024 - News
Francesco Vezzoli in "Art at Home", Casa Cipriani Milano
“Art at Home” is the new project of Casa Cipriani Milano, a series of artistic dialogues involving 25 galleries in Milan. Tommaso Calabro is pleased to have contributed to the first edition of the project with the work “Portrait of Leonor Fini with Dancing Tears, 1971” (2022) by Francesco Vezzoli, exhibited in the Pickering Room.
April 16, 2024 - News
Our new Venice gallery is opening soon!
Tommaso Calabro announces the opening of his new gallery in Venice in Campo San Polo, in the evocative setting of Palazzo Donà Brusa. The gallery will present monographic and group exhibitions of international scope, mainly dedicated to 20th century artists, more and less famous, often favouring their rediscovery and appreciation.
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.”
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.
February 08, 2024 - News
TOMMASO CALABRO AT TEFAF 2024
Tommaso Calabro is thrilled to announce its first participation to the Showcase Section of TEFAF Maastricht 2024, with a stand dedicated to the Surrealist movement, in the year when it celebrates its first one hundred years.
The presentation will include a selection of works by the Italian Surrealists Leonor Fini (1907-1996), Stanislao Lepri (1905-1980) and Fabrizio Clerici (1913-1993).
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
"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.