From Loring Knoblauch’s review for Collector Daily:

The strongest of Calafiore’s compositions push and pull on visual notions of desire and masculinity, using the theatrical colors and settings to upend our expectations for how male bodies are typically presented or seen. There is a consistent hulking grace to his resting men, where hardness and softness are forced to coexist within the stylized environments of empty luxury, with a mood of satisfied lethargy filling the available space; these are indeed slow pictures, that celebrate the relaxed rhythms of the aftermath of extended revelry. It is this sense of extended pause that gives these pictures their seductive air, with time stretched out to accommodate a long moment of drowsy gratification.

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