Massimo Polello
Based in Turin, Italy, Massimo Polello has worked as a calligrapher artist for over sixteen years. Since studying calligraphy, he has explored its classical and contemporary applications and potentiality in art and graphic design. These include designing packaging and signage logos for companies, museums and individuals, as well as applying his designs to walls and for interiors design.
He has exhibited, taught workshops and spoke at international seminars regularly.
He sums up his approach to calligraphy as, "...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."
He published in 2016 a collaboration with the designer Marcel Wanders a prestigious limited edition book for the RIJKS MUSEUM in Amsterdam “The Rijksbook” http://rijksmastersofthegoldenage.com/, and in 2009 “Traité de la peinture-Extraits” with Editions Alternatives Publisher-Paris and worked with artist and film-maker as Peter Greenaway in "Peopling the Palace" and with the director Luca Ronconi to the installation of the of 150th Anniversary exhibition of the Unification of Italy, "La Bella Italia" http://youtu.be/o97eJUAc6Gg
VIDEO
Latest Woks Project Exhibition Klausen Museum http://vimeo.com/11989235
Wunderkammer Project http://vimeo.com/52531987
The Rijksbook project http://www.rijksmastersofthegoldenage.com/VIDEO/portfolio/making-of/
"How else can I feel alive and that I exist in this world but through my hand? My hand leaves a trace, my hand writes and describes me. In this way, letters become a means to exist outside myself. Often forgetting what writing means, going beyond the letters, captured by a soul need to see. The letters become signs, images, evocations, urgent needs, emotions. The gesture of a hand that writes becomes free in its desire to speak for itself, speaking of things beyond itself."
Massimo Polello
He has exhibited, taught workshops and spoke at international seminars regularly.
He sums up his approach to calligraphy as, "...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."
He published in 2016 a collaboration with the designer Marcel Wanders a prestigious limited edition book for the RIJKS MUSEUM in Amsterdam “The Rijksbook” http://rijksmastersofthegoldenage.com/, and in 2009 “Traité de la peinture-Extraits” with Editions Alternatives Publisher-Paris and worked with artist and film-maker as Peter Greenaway in "Peopling the Palace" and with the director Luca Ronconi to the installation of the of 150th Anniversary exhibition of the Unification of Italy, "La Bella Italia" http://youtu.be/o97eJUAc6Gg
VIDEO
Latest Woks Project Exhibition Klausen Museum http://vimeo.com/11989235
Wunderkammer Project http://vimeo.com/52531987
The Rijksbook project http://www.rijksmastersofthegoldenage.com/VIDEO/portfolio/making-of/
"How else can I feel alive and that I exist in this world but through my hand? My hand leaves a trace, my hand writes and describes me. In this way, letters become a means to exist outside myself. Often forgetting what writing means, going beyond the letters, captured by a soul need to see. The letters become signs, images, evocations, urgent needs, emotions. The gesture of a hand that writes becomes free in its desire to speak for itself, speaking of things beyond itself."
Massimo Polello