Carlo Caloro
Rome, 1962. Lives and works between Rome and Cologne.
Practice
His research presents itself as an exploration of various artistic idioms and of the stigmas attached to certain elements of the contemporary, translated by the artist into images: composite installations arising from personal reflections and the synthesis of studies conducted with methods often borrowed from humanistic and scientific traditions. Suspended between logical and abstract approaches, each work is a material and poetic experiment. His language engages new technologies as well as traditional craftsmanship and performative action.
Pre-academic experience
From the late 1980s he built leather masks and marionettes. In the early 1990s he organised in Rome the first international festival of animation theatre held in the city (documentation largely lost after two domestic burglaries and several relocations). In the same period he held a residency at the Marionetteatern Stockholm, then directed by Michael Meschke (UNIMA vice-president, founder of the theatre in 1958). In 1997 or 1998 he took part in a summer workshop within the European network eRENA / i3net (with ZKM Karlsruhe among partners) on Real Gesture / mixed reality.
Training
- Academy of Media Arts (KHM), Cologne — diploma with the project Corrispondenze, 2001-08
- National Academy of Dramatic Arts «Silvio D’Amico», Rome — collaborator on the Direction course, research into new technologies applied to stage performance
artQ13
Co-founder of artQ13, independent space in Rome, since 2014.
Teaching and research
- Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
- Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Department of Spanish Philology, Spain
- Ajuntament de Santa Perpètua de Mogoda, Patronat Granja Soldevila, Spain
- Universidad de Extremadura, Department of Hispanic Philology, Cáceres, Spain
- Universidad de Extremadura, Cultural Action and Community Services, Cáceres, Spain
- Justus-Liebig-Universität, Applied Theatre Studies, Giessen, Germany
- Theater im Pfalzbau, Repertory Theatre of Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
- Georg-August-Universität, Department of Dramaturgy, German Seminar, Göttingen, Germany
- University of Westminster, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Languages, London, UK
Selected exhibitions
Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome · ADK Akademie der Künste, Berlin · Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivara, Turin · Accademia di Romania, Rome · Fondazione Filiberto Menna, Salerno · Teatro Eleonora Duse — National Academy of Dramatic Arts, Rome · Museo Luchino Visconti, Villa la Colombaia, Forio, Ischia · Museo MIM, Castell’Arquato, Piacenza · MACRO — Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome · Galerie–Projektraum, KHM, Cologne · Lavatoio Contumaciale, Rome.