Exhibition: 26 September -30 November 2025, st-Art Gallery, Amsterdam. Opening: 26 September at 6pm
Artist: Calì

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st-Art Amsterdam is proud to present I Am the Place, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Italian artist Calì.

In this series, Calí transforms color into a language of both fragility and strength. Her works are not simple representations, but immersive spaces where memory, intimacy, and identity take form. Each painting is a declaration that intimacy can be shared, not hidden — a radical act of resistance against stereotypes, disconnection, and the loss of presence in modern life. The artist builds an intimate connection with the viewer through her use of color and subtle nuances, revealing bursts of emotion and vulnerability.

The purpose of this exhibition is simple yet powerful: to create a space where emotion is honored, where visitors can pause, connect, and feel — both through Calí’s art and within themselves. Her intense brushstrokes, layered glazes, and contrasting colors establish an immediate connection with viewers, inviting them to step inside her place.

Her technique blends oil-based varnishes, mixed media, and layered gestures with brushes, spatulas, and rollers. Throughout these medias and tools she explores the reason behind each gesture: creating spaces within spaces, building veilings interacting with each other and allow the material and color to breathe.

In Calí’s work, color is never decoration; it is flesh and urgency, biography and memory. Every hue carries intention: red ochre burns like fire, green pulses with wild nature, white radiates fragile light, black holds mystery and depth, ochre glows with sun and dryness, while her signature “Calí blue” opens onto infinity. Together these shades form an intimate code, a language of life traces and emotional presence.

Like in Rothko, color becomes a dense presence, a field of immersion; yet in Calí, immersion is also an explosion. The artist puts herself at the border between public space and private experience, between social structure and personal impulse. In this fluid, unstable, living boundary, art becomes territory.
This is not just another art exhibition.
I Am the Place is the formula by which Calí asserts herself not only as an artist but as a critical, vulnerable, and political place where intimacy can endure.
This is the place where vulnerability speaks in color, memory takes form, and identity refuses to hide. A place where being authentically who we are is not private, but powerful.

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“I have been obsessed with Calì’s talent since the first time I saw her art. She is not only a talented artist, but a deeply intellectual and sensitive human who has done sort of a metempsychosis in a new body, in a new place, into her art, a place, not safe, but exposed, articulated and full of pathos. Calì has never stopped experimenting with her color overglazing and her delicate washings of shadows, the result still impresses me and I can’t wait to see what is more to come out of her huge creativity cylinder.”
— Carlo Tozzi, founder of st-Art

**About Artist:**

Calì is a contemporary artist exploring the intersections of social space and intimacy. Using color as an emotional anchor, she creates immersive works where personal experience and collective memory collide. Influenced by artists like Mark Rothko, her practice moves between private and public realms, turning art into a vulnerable and transformative space.

Coinciding with the opening of her solo exhibition, Calì will also lead a special workshop at st-Art on 24 September, 18:00.

“The Abstract World of Calì: Abstract & Aperitivo” invites participants to experience her creative process first-hand, exploring abstraction, color, and emotion. All materials are included, all levels are welcome, and the evening will end with a convivial aperitivo.

This is a unique chance to get closer to the artist’s technique and vision just before the exhibition’s opening night.

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