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Indepth Arts News:
"War Stories for Children and Art Stories for Adults: Recent Paintings and Sculptures byTony Calzetta"
2001-07-20 until 2001-09-09
Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery
Chatham, ON,
CA Canada
Ten large-scale canvases and 3 life-size cardboard sculptures showcase
Toronto artist Tony Calzetta’s idiosyncratic and engaging imagery. Calzetta
invites his lines to dance, zoom, fly, gesticulate, spin and toddle. Color
and texture are vital to his paintings, but it’s the idiosyncratic drawing
that gives them punch. In the sculptures, lines jump into a third dimension
and wriggle to life.
This exhibition has been organized by the Thames Art Gallery and will
circulate to galleries in the Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. A 24
page catalogue with color plates and essays by Liz Wylie and Kate Regan is
available.
Excerpt from the Tony Calzetta: Line Dancing by Kate Regan
Although he emphasizes that his work is not really to do with paint, since
he draws first in graphite or charcoal and then colors in with oil sticks
and/or acrylics, Calzetta in fact has developed a distinctive and subtle use
of color and texture. If he is not painterly in the sense of piling on the
pigment, he is a master of tone and mood. The brightness of his primary
palette is enriched by contrasting blacks and greys. Frequently he creates a
delicate shimmering effect by scratching, cross-hatching or overpainting his
background fields. The radiant play of light on these canvases deepens their
drama.
IMAGE:
Tony Calzetta
Mother Hubbard Arriving at the Cupboard
Knocks Two Times Because Marcel Duchamp Lives There,
1998
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