Giorgio Andreotta Caló’s research developed though a process of withdrawing fragments from reality and the reappropriation of architecture, landscape and his own history. Calò comes to create works that cross boundaries between sculpture, actions and direct architectural intervention. Therefore, the artwork presented to the public is never a specially-­made object or simply the result of a project, but rather a time-based process immersed in physical matter and space and given its shape by the environment with which it interacts and the energies unleashed from within it. He seeks out and pursues his visions with extreme lucidity, revealing how real and essential they are before tracing them back to everyday situations. His artworks may be interpreted as “active residues” of processes and actions that have taken place in a specific time and space.

Giorgio Andreotta Calò (born 1979 in Venice) studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti, Venice from 1999 to 2005 and at the KHB KunstHochSchule, Berlin, from 2003 to 2004. Since 2008 he has lived and worked in Venice and Amsterdam where he was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten. In 2011, his work was presented at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2012 he won the Premio Italia for contemporary art organized by the Museum MAXXI, Rome.