"...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."
Based in Turin, Italy, Massimo Polello has worked as a calligrapher artist for over fifteen years. Since studying calligraphy, he has explored its classical and contemporary applications and potentiality in art and graphic design.
He has exhibited, teach workshops and seminary regularly internationally all over the world and taught in Usa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Korea,…at the New York and University of Montreal and Calgary.
he worked on several short films, and is a contributor to Graphicus, TipoItalia and Letters Arts Review magazines and collaborated with the Medicea Laurenziana Library in Florence.
He took part and invited at International Type Designer Conference in Moscow, Istanbul and at the ATypI 2015 International Type Designer Conference in Sao Paulo.
He published in 2016 in 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
Actually he is President of Turin calligraphers´ guild “Dal Segno alla Scrittura” and work in his Studio Gallery ABC_Atelier in Turin
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