Paolo Calia at Mazarine Variations

Christine Lahoud, DP, Paolo Calia, Marco de Rivera

Emmanuel de Brantes , Lala de Brantes

Marco de RIvera

https://www.mazarine-variations.com/exhibitions/paolo-calia-2/

©Paolo Calia Victor Lesggy

©Paolo Calia Viviane Esders

©Paolo Calia Diane Pernet

©Paolo Calia Didier Grumbach

©Paolo Calia Emma Canot-

©Paolo Calia Eric Antoine

©Paolo Calia Fabrice de Rohan-Chabot

©Paolo Calia Gabrielle Lazure

©Paolo Calia Gerald Cohen

©Paolo Calia Golan Yosef

©Paolo Calia Hermine de Clermont-Tonnerre 2

©Paolo Calia Jean-Gabriel Mitterrand

©Paolo Calia Julie Lesggy

©Paolo Calia Lala de Brantes 3

©Paolo Calia Allegra Cuddeford de Clermont-Tonnerre

©Paolo Calia Calixte Cuddeford de Clermont-Tonnerre

©Paolo Calia Calixte de Nigremont

©Paolo Calia Christine Lahoud-Marussa Gravagnuolo

©Paolo Calia Emmanuel de Brantes

©Paolo Calia Marco de Rivera

©Paolo Calia Lola Laurent mercier

©Paolo Calia Mac Lesggy

©Paolo Calia Romane Girardin

©Paolo Calia Sapho Egbuy

Dear Shaded Viewers,

I missed the opening on Thursday but passed by today and happily Paolo Calia, the artist, was there. Paolo created his imaginary family, it was so large that he had to split it in two. My friend Marco de Rivera and I are in Part 2. The photos are 6K and a limited edition of 3.

Born in Sardinia, Paolo Calia began to paint very young, having his brother pose and his neighbors. At 16 he already receives a gold medal in a regional painting competition. He then goes to Venice at the Academy of Fine Arts where he switches from figurative painting to abstract painting and conceptual. He afterwards moves to Rome where the meeting and friendship of some artists from the capital made him discover a taste for performance and happening and tableaux vivants.

It was during one of these performances that he met Fellini. Follows a collaboration for the sets of some films – Fellini had a great influence on the development of his dreamlike imagination – Italian art critic Giulio Carlo Argan persuades him to move to Paris and gets him a scholarship corresponding the price of Rome.

Paris is love at first sight: he falls completely in love with this city – the influence of Cocteau and Surrealism also counted for him -. As opposed to sensuality and to the carnal side of Fellini that gives him an almost mystical evanescent dimension and he discovers the photo by making alive tableaux reproducing the paintings of the Louvre which meet a great success. The opportunity to meet and be fascinated by several fashion designers will make him want to stage their creations, photograph them and publish their photos in different magazines of fashion. He will also collaborate on the covers of Italian magazines such as Panorama and Espresso which will also ask him to illustrate stories by writers like Moravia …