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Calogero Pierre was born in Paris in 1944.
His first works date from 1963. He has participated at lot of exhibitions in Paris: Les Indépendants, the Artistes Français, the Salon d'Automne. His painting, first figurative, became abstract. He participated at several exhibitions, in Rouen, Pontoise, Cabourg and Casablanca. He has alone exhibited in several galleries in Paris in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005, in Saint Jeannet near Nice in 2007 and 2008.
One of his paintings was purchased by the FRAC de Cergy Pontoise in 1976. He illustrated an edition of the original publisher for Fata Morgana Gallery Nicaise in Paris. The painter CALO, it's his signature, has never had any other passion than that to paint. Drawing is the basis of his work. He practices primarily oil painting but also on chassis acrylic. He practice also works on paper with watercolor, ink, oil pastel.
After having worked on geometric shapes, he now focuses research's on the gesture, its spontaneity, its lyricism. He is passionate about the transmission of energies through the colors. For him, the line must reflect a creative force's, of pure, and develop poetry canvas , poetry that has a complex relationship with reality and the experience.