About

A born Roman, Paul Klerr returned to his home city after a formative education in the United States during second world war, to study art. Since then Paul Klerrs abstract work has centred around his home city and has shown in many of Rome’s galleries and exhibition spaces as well public commissions around Italy and collaborative projects crossing over into contemporary music.

Paul’s work uses a subtle use of materials from stone, wood and metal to gypsum, card, paper and glass and often explores the balances of light, weight and the negative space. Forms that often feel they are floating within their sculptural frames, hanging or peeling off their walls. Opposite textures coexisting and sitting against their obvious structural posture.
Sculptural wall reliefs he referred to as ‘vertical art’ form a reoccurring theme. An interest in contemporary music led him to a collaborative art piece with composer Alvin Curren.

As he struggled with ill health, his later work used lighter weight materials and the density of these works was replaced with colour both in his wall reliefs and in his many iPad drawings that kept a curious mind alive within a frail body.

Throughout his artistic life he has worked in three studios and it is in this order that we present his works. These can be crossed referenced within some of the many shows he has been part of, co exhibiting with artists as influential as Luciano Fontano, Cy Twombly and Sol Lewitt.

Studio Plinio
Studio Calamatta
Studio Sutri.

Studio Sutri remains and it is here where we intend to continue the spirit of Paul’s work and practice, exhibiting the majority of his work and offering a limited studio space and retreat to those who wish to immerse themselves in a Studio life, shadowed by the ancient town of Sutri and the beautiful landscape on the Roma / Lazio borders.