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The painter Vincenzo Calli was born in 1953. After graduating from the Institute of Art in Sansepolcro, he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. At only 21 years of age he had his first exhibit. In 1984 the "American" adventure began when he was invited to exhibit paintings at the World's Fair Exposition, in New Orleans, Louisiana that year. He earned recognition from the critics in 1986 with the award "Art '86" given for painting, by the Giorgio Mondadori Magazine, and was invited to exhibit by important galleries in Rome and Milan. It was in 1993 that he felt recognized as an artist with a one man show at the historic art gallery Bernheim-Jeune in Paris , where the grand masters of painting had exhibited previously: Renoir, Cèzanne, Van Gogh and Modigliani. The introductions in the catalogue for this exhibit are written by the French critic Roger Bouillot and the writer Alberto Bevilacqua. In 1997 the Provence of Florence awarded Calli a one man show with the title "Messaggi Anomali - Anonymous Messages"; it was held in the Palazzo Pinucci in Florence, and organized by the Vialarga Gallery. Returning to the United States in the sarne year, he was invited to have a one man show in Boca Raton, Florida. The catalogue for "Anonymous Messages" was written by William Biety . In 1999, Calli returned to the site of his origins and exhibited his paintings in the house of Piero della Francesca in Sansepolcro. This one man show was titled "Dalla mente al cuore - From the Mind to the Heart". In the year 2000, Vincenzo Calli exhibited in the United States and in Great Britain. The shows were held, respectively, in the Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida and in the Albemarle Gallery in London, England. In 2001, he had a one man show of his paintings in the Palazzo Casali in Cortona, Italy. The title of the show was "Emozioni Mediterranee"/ "Mediterranean Emotions" and the introduction to the exhibit was written by John T. Spike. As of 2002, the works of Vincenzo Calli are in permanment collections in the following galleries: - Camino Real Gallery - Boca Raton, Florida, USA - Albemarle Gallery - London, England, Great Britain - Fornara Gallery - Marbella, Spain - Galleria Filippo Pananti - Florence, Italy Vincenzo Calli lives and works in his studio in Anghiari, Italy, an ancient medieval town which dominates the Upper Tiber River Valley in Tuscany. |
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