{"id":8924,"date":"2012-04-03T22:17:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T02:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artoronto.ca\/?p=8924"},"modified":"2012-05-12T09:44:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T13:44:17","slug":"tony-calzetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artoronto.ca\/?p=8924","title":{"rendered":"Tony Calzetta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bob Was Quite Leary of the Jibber Jabber Jimmys<\/em>
\n2012; 66 x 84 inches;\u00a0\u00a0charcoal and acrylic on canvas<\/p>\n

April 14\u00a0\u2013 May 5, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday,\u00a0April 14,\u00a0\u00a04\u20139 p.m.
\nPreview by appointment: April 11, 12 & 13
\nR.S.V.P. to\u00a0invite@delucafineart.com<\/a>
\nDE LUCA FINE ART GALLERY<\/strong>
\n217 Avenue Road
\nToronto, ON, M5R 2J3
\nT: 416-537-4699
\nE:\u00a0corrado@delucafineart.com\u00a0<\/a>
\nwww.delucafineart.com<\/a>.
\nHours: Tues\u2013Sat 11\u20135 p.m.<\/p>\n

Over the past 35 years Tony Calzetta has developed a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms where colour, texture and lines jump into a third dimension and dance to life to create works that challenge the viewer\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

As Kate Regan wrote in her essay\u00a0“Tony Calzetta: Line Dancing,”\u00a0\u201cit was Paul Klee who wrote of taking a line for a walk to see where it would go. In the same spirit, Calzetta invites his lines to spin, zoom, fly, gesticulate and toddle.\u201d<\/p>\n

This important exhibition of major works, Calzetta\u2019s first in five years, is a new collection of large scale canvasses and drawings.<\/p>\n

Tony Calzetta received his B.F.A. from the University of Windsor and his M.F.A. from York University. He works mainly on canvas and paper and at times in sculpture and printmaking. He has published three major livres d\u2019artiste,\u00a0Acts of Kindness and of Love<\/em>\u00a0in collaboration with writer John Metcalf, and more recently\u00a0How God Talks in His Sleep and Other Fabulous Fictions<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Peculiar Practices<\/em>\u00a0with writer Leon Rooke. In addition to commissioned works he is represented in public, corporate and private collections in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In 2011, his paintings exhibited at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Toronto were part of the Padiglione Italia at the 54th<\/sup>\u00a0International Venice Biennale. He was elected as a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) in 2004.<\/p>\n

Tony Calzetta says, \u201cMy work is about drawing. The drawing is about images that are composed of shapes and forms constantly evolving from a highly personal visual vocabulary which started with subconscious doodling and automatic drawing and later from more conscious visual influences. My work can be viewed as ‘abstract funnies’ or ‘surreal cartoons’ which fit somewhere between high art and popular culture. My interest is with image as image and I believe in letting the viewer interpret and create his or her own narrative.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 14 \u2013 May 5, 2012<\/strong>
\nOpening: Saturday, April 14, 4 \u2013 9 p.m.<\/p>\n

DE LUCA FINE ART | GALLERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

a distinctive visual language of bold, simplified forms where colour, texture and lines jump into a third dimension and dance to life to create works that challenge the viewer\u2019s imagination.<\/p>\n

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