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Salt, iron element and lead on canvas applied on board.
14.17 x 9.84 x 0.79 in.
Signed on the reverse.
Within plexiglass frame.
Artwork registered at Fondazione Calzolari under the number A-CAL-0-118.

The end of the 1960s, and in particular the two-year period 1968-1969, was the fundamental keystone for the turning point of Calzolari's artistic production which reached its peak with the publication in 1968 of 'The ideal house' - considered a fundamental work to the Arte Povera movement - and the realization of a cycle of works where he began to use objects and materials such as fire, ice, lead, tin, felt, salt, tobacco, playing on their constant movement and continuous change, sometimes even casual. Precisely these works and experiments decreed the rise of Calzolari among the most important protagonists of the art scene, not only in Italy, but above all internationally, and tying him to the movements of Conceptual Art and Minimalism.
This small work contains all the elements and strength of the experiments of those years: the salt that shines as precious as marble, the soft lead and the signs of a transformation in perennial transformation and transition.