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"How can one, as an artist, resist while continuing to produce work? How can one work within an art world that they despise, but in which they nonetheless function? Central to Stefano Calligaro’s practice, from the start of an idea or gesture to its physical outcome, are the questions of WHY and WHAT one produces as an artist. According to Calligaro, the difficulty of art lies not in its complexity, but in its irrelevance. The fundamental attitude of his work is the act of questioning itself: questioning art’s appearance, its morality, its aesthetics, its functionality, its usefulness. Another ‘response’ is given in his rejection of a certain virtuosity - be it within a medium like painting, writing, or even Photoshop – so as to not fall in love with one’s own artistic mastery or craftsmanship. Calligaro’s exhibitions ar something other than a simple sum of objects that together form a coherent whole. It is consciously incoherent, emanating out from the artist’s daily life. “I'd like this show to, yes, ‘show’ something, but I want it to be me and my incongruent interests and processes all together instead of a clear display of general subjects interesting to others. I like to think of art as something close to what we are and not to what we want to represent.” Noor Mertens