MASSIMO POLELLO_biography
Based in Turin, Italy, Massimo Polello has worked as a calligrapher for over twenty years.
He has explored its classical and contemporary applications in visuals arts and graphic design. These include designing packaging and signage logos for companies, museums and individuals, as well as applying his designs to walls, films and art videos.
He has exhibited, led workshops internationally: US, Australia,New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Canada, Pakistan, Japan, France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, England and many others countries, he worked on several short films, and is a contributor to Graphicus, TipoItalia and Letters Arts Review magazines and collaborations with the Medicea Laurenziana Library in Florence.
He has part on faculty for many times at the international Calligraphy Conferences in North America and took part and invited at International Type Designer Conference in Moscow, Istanbul and at the ATypI 2015 International Type Designer Conference Sao Paulo
He published, in collaboration with the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders, a prestigious limited edition book for the RIJKS MUSEUM in Amsterdam The Rijksbook and in 2009 Traité de la peinture-Extraits with Editions Alternatives Publisher-Paris and worked with artist and filmmaker Peter Greenaway in "Peopling the Palace" and with the director Luca Ronconi on the installation of the of 150th Anniversary exhibition of the Unification of Italy, "La Bella Italia".
He is President of Turin calligraphers´ guild “Dal Segno alla Scrittura” and works in his Studio Gallery ABC Atelier in Turin.
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He sums up his approach to calligraphy best, "...letters become a means to exist outside myself... going beyond the letters, captured by a sole need to see. They become signs, images, evocations, urgent needs, emotions."
CONTACT
ABC ATELIER Massimo Polello
VIA SALUZZO 30
10125 TORINO- Italy
+39 349 555 49 64 (cell)
WEB SITE
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https://www.instagram.com/massimopolello/
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BEHANCE
https://www.behance.net/MassimoPolello
VIMEO
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