Original Huge Iconic Cult Classic 2009 Pirelli Calendar By Photographer Peter Beard Uncensored, - 2009

Original Huge Iconic Cult Classic 2009 Pirelli Calendar By Photographer Peter Beard Uncensored, Individually Numbered, Executive VIP Copy, These were Not For Resale.

Now regarded in the modern art world as an iconic classic, very big, painted on textured waxy thick board images appear 3D, this is the scarce sort after uncensored edition and is in fine condition with only slight rubbing and crease to outer front board corners

Beware of new fakes, this is numbered 23315 and 100% authentic original

The calendar is produced with limited availability (20,000 are printed annually). Copies do not go on sale, but are instead given as corporate gifts to celebrities and select Pirelli customers. The annual production cost was about US$2 million in 2017.

Marco Tronchetti Provera, Pirelli's CEO from 1992 to 2022, commented that the purpose of the Cal is "to mark the passing of time" by recording the zeitgeist.

Pirelli Calendar 2009
Berlin, November 20, 2008 - The 2009 edition of the Pirelli Calendar, cult object for more than forty years among connoisseurs of photography, beauty and cultural evolution, was unveiled today in a world premiere held at The Station in Berlin, the historic train depot that connected the capital with Dresden, Vienna and Prague in the late 19th century.

The setting for the 36th "Cal" is the landscape of Botswana, where last May famed photographer Peter Beard spent ten days immortalising seven internationally renowned models.

Beard, who lived in Kenya for thirty years, is one of the world's greatest interpreters of the mystery and charm of Africa.
 
After last year's China edition, where Patrick Demarchelier artfully juxtaposed the atmospheres of ancient tea houses with the modernity of China's metropolises, the Pirelli Calendar moves to one of the few places in Africa that remain wild and unspoiled, free of the ravages of war and with the highest concentration of wildlife.

Peter Beard has chosen an authentic and ancestral land that is born of the interpenetration of two different worlds: the aquatic oasis of the Okavango River delta and the arid expanse of the Kalahari Desert.

A place that has been spared both the exploitation of the land and the impoverishment of its resources, the ideal setting for the photographer's representation of nature as a metaphysical entity, always in motion, source of infinite creativity, within whose rhythms and laws everything must begin and end. 

A nature described as powerful yet at the same time wounded, with an harmonic view of the environment that draws on the spirit of 19th-century American naturalism. Through Beard's lens, nature unleashes an angry cry and rebels against humanity's incapacity to combine growth and development with wisdom and respect for diversity. It is in this context that elephants, the real protagonists of this edition of the Cal, struggle to survive, relegated as they are to ever shrinking areas. Elephants as metaphor of the human race, and Africa as metaphor of a devastated world that must recover its lost harmony. 

Beard grants no privilege to humans, for he believes that we, just like animals, must respect nature's balance. He imagines for all of us the bitter fate of living in an environment rendered ever more inhospitable by myopic, uncontrolled development, where the quality of life progressively declines and must come to terms with the rebellion of an offended nature.

The only hope is beauty. Beard believes that the key to saving humankind lies in a constant quest for truth and beauty. Beard's women are portrayed as generators of life, the source of all things, whose grace remains fully intact. They are depicted as creatures born of nature's womb, heroic, full of strength, with decisive features and powerful movements; statues, symbols of nature's creativity and ability to regenerate itself.

"Only beauty can save the world" is the message of the new Pirelli Calendar, in the spirit of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The seven models are: Daria Werbowy of Canada, Emanuela de Paula and Isabeli Fontana (who debuted in Demarchelier's 2005 Calendar) from Brazil, Lara Stone and Rianne Ten Haken from Holland, Malgosia Bela of Poland and Italy's own Mariacarla Boscono (who first appeared in the 2003 edition by Bruce Weber and again in Nick Knight's 2004 Calendar).
The final result is a calendar/diary that Peter Beard describes as "a living sculpture".

The 56 plates of the new Cal are a rich collage of images, quotations, observations by the artist on the environment, climate change and global warming, overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources. "My real concern", says the photographer "is the destruction of nature on a global scale. We've totally lost track of what evolution is based on, and how important diversity is in nature.

This concept is the very foundation of survival".
 
Throughout the shooting and production of the Calendar, a number of measures were taken to minimize its environmental impact. In keeping with Peter Beard's message, the Pirelli Calendar and the gala presentation of the 2009 edition will be Zero Impact.

Pirelli, in cooperation with a LifeGate initiative, will contribute to the creation and protection of a forested area in Costa Rica capable of absorbing the same quantity of CO2 emissions generated by the production and printing of the Calendar and by the presentation gala. Additionally, the Calendar will be printed on natural, lead-free paper.


The seven models are: Daria Werbowy of Canada, Emanuela de Paula and Isabeli Fontana (who debuted in Demarchelier's 2005 Calendar) from Brazil, Lara Stone and Rianne Ten Haken from Holland, Malgosia Bela of Poland and Italy's own Mariacarla Boscono (who first appeared in the 2003 edition by Bruce Weber and again inNick Knight's 2004 Calendar).
The final result is a calendar/diary that Peter Beard describes as "a living sculpture". The 56 plates of the new Cal are a rich collage of images, quotations, observations by the artist on the environment, climate change and global warming, overpopulation and the depletion of natural resources. "My real concern", says the photographer "is the destruction of nature on a global scale. We've totally lost track of what evolution is based on, and how important diversity is in nature. This concept is the very foundation of survival".
 
Throughout the shooting and production of the Calendar, a number of measures were taken to minimize its environmental impact. In keeping with Peter Beard's message, the Pirelli Calendar and the gala presentation of the 2009 edition will be Zero Impact. Pirelli, in cooperation with a LifeGate initiative, will contribute to the creation and protection of a forested area in Costa Rica capable of absorbing the same quantity of CO2 emissions generated by the production and printing of the Calendar and by the presentation gala. Additionally, the Calendar will be printed on natural, lead-free paper.

Mixing art with nudity looks like it's been the company's main preoccupation when producing the already famous Pirelli calendar for the coming year. The novelty can be seen online but, unfortunately for enthusiasts who already planned to decorate their kitchen door with it, the calendar cannot be purchased as its availability is restricted to certain important customers and celebrity VIPs that are going to receive it as a corporate gift for the holidays

The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as "The Cal", is an annual trade calendar which has been published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli since 1964. The calendar has a reputation for its choice of photographers and models and featured glamour photography from the 1980s until the 2010s

These examples are very hard to obtain now and will only greatly appreciate in value, a magnificent true tour de force

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