Calos
Nino Calos (1925-1990)
Mobile Lumineux
Wood, plexiglas, motor & light
H110x110cm
Aster, 1966, 69 x 69 cm
Nino Calos exhibition
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Nino Calos is one of the pioneers of lumino-kinetic art, embodying the poetic and lyrical branch of this movement. In the 1950s, he was invited to participate in group exhibitions at Iris Clert's, at the Galerie la Concorde in 1957, at Colette Allendy's in 1958; in 1960, the Galerie del Cavallino devoted a monographic exhibition to him, followed the next year by the Galerie Pierre Belfond in Paris.
He was particularly interested in the question of the integration of the work of art in architecture, seeking to establish a totally immersive relationship with the viewer but also to abolish any intellectual distance between the latter and the work of art.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
1960, January 30 – February 8, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice
1961, November 28 – December 31, Galerie P. Belfond, Paris
1966, April 20 – May 7, Studio Margutta 13, Rome
1969, June 28 – September 14, Musée municipal, Sables d'Olonne
1971, May 29 – June 17, Galleria Sincron, Brescia
1972, February 5-18, Galleria dei Mille, Bergamo
1973, April 16-30, Galleria La Piramide, Florence
1973, May 28 – June 6 or 11, Studio Margutta 13, Rome
1973, November 25 – December 6, Galleria Il Gelso, Lodi
1974, May 11 – June 9, Galleria Proposte Arte Internazionale, Cuneo
1975, January 23 – February 12 or 14, Nouvelles Images Gallery, The Hague
1975, February 8 – March 2, Galleria Andromeda, Bologna
1975, April 5 – May 5, Galleria Bottega del quadro, Bergamo
1975, April 5 – May 4, Galleria Kefri, Bergamo
1975-1976, December 20 – January 30, Galleria Lito-Arte-Fioretti, Bergamo
1975-1976, December 5 – January 6, Galleria Vismara, Milan
1976, October 12 – November 6, Galleria Rizzardi, Milan
1978, April 18 – May 20, Galerie Alos, Toulouse
2014, October 9-30, RCM Galerie, Paris
1957 & 1958, Iris Clert, rue des Beaux-Arts, Paris
1961-1965, Furstenberg Gallery, Paris
1962, March 7 – May 15, 1962, " L'Objet ", Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris
1962, July 5 – September 27, "31 gestalter einer totalen visuellen synthese", Marie-Suzanne Feigel Gallery of Modern Art, Basel
1964, November 28 – December 5, 1964, "International Kinetic Poetry Fund", St. Catherine College, Cambridge
1965, May-June, "Art and Movement", Museum, Tel Aviv
1965, June 16 or 19 – July 18, "Salon d'art sacré", Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1966, February 8 – March, "Structures, Light and Movement", Denise René Gallery, Paris
1966, April 17 – May 10, "suono movimento colore", galleria dell'Obelisco, Rome
1966, April 24-May 29, "Neue Malerei aus Paris", Museum Schwäbisch, Gmund (Germany)
1966, "Licht en beweging", Kunstcentrum, Rotterdam, Gelders Kunstcentrum Epok, Velp (Netherlands), Galeria al-veka, The Hague
1966, September 24 – December 5, "Kunst – Licht – Kunst", Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1966, October 7-30, "Salon des réalités nouvelles", Paris
1967, January-February, "Nuova Tendenza", Galleria il Cenobio, Milan
1967, March-April, " Art cinétique ", Centre culturel, Toulouse
1967, April 1 – 23, "Salon des réalités nouvelles", Museum of Modern Art of the city, Paris
1967, April-September, "Museo sperimentale d'arte contemporanea", Museo civico d'Arte Moderna, Torino
1967, May-November, "Light and Movement", Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1967, June 20-22, "Les Artistes solidaires d'Israël", 6 bis rue des Saints-Pères, Paris
1968, January 27 – March 11, "Kinetic art and space", Museum, Le Havre
1968, April 2-28, "Comparison", Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1968, May 13 – October 25, " Cinetism, environment, spectacle ", Maison de la culture, Grenoble
1968, May, " Confrontations ", Museum, Dijon
1968, June 11-30, " Convergenze 4 ", Studio Margutta 13, Rome
1969, February 21 – March 9, "Salon des Réalités Nouvelles", Museum of Modern Art, Paris
1969, March 22 – April 20, "Visuelt miljo 1″, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1969, April, " Art constructif et mouvement ", Centre Co-mo, Paris
1969, May 10 – June 8, "Valo ja liike 2", Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki
1969, May – November 15, "Exposition d'art expérimental", Museum of Art and Industry, Saint-Etienne
1969, July 4 – August 10, "Lys og Bevaegelse", Bella Centret, Copenhagen
1969, September 19 – October 19, " Espace et Lumière ", Grand Palais, Paris
1969, October 10 – November 15, "Art et matières", Museum, Quebec
1970, "Three trends in contemporary French art", Kunstverein, Hannover, Modern Art Museum, Munich, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Museum of Fine Arts, Mons, Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels
1970, " Formes et Mureaux ", organized by Maurice Perrier de Lyon, Institut Franco-Japonais, Tokyo, Prefectural Palace, Kyoto, Hiroshima Museum
1970, March 19 – April 19, "Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui", Halles de Paris
1970, June 5 – July 5, "Jeune Sculpture", Orangerie du Luxembourg, Paris
1970, September 25 – November 22, "Kinetics", Hayward Gallery, London