LA PACE AGLI ANTIPODI 

(PEACE AT THE ANTIPODES)


Disse il grande Leonardo da Vinci (The great Leonardo da Vinci said):

"Fin dalla più tenera età, ho rifiutato di mangiar carne e verrà il giorno in cui uomini come me guarderanno all’uccisione degli animali nello stesso modo in cui oggi si guarda all’uccisione degli uomini".

(”I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men'').


Mi sono ispirato al talento di uno dei più grandi geni della storia, il cui animo e grandezza pittorica hanno trovato aperture immense e contatto con mondi spirituali superiori grazie ad un corpo depurato e sottratto dalla "civiltà della carne". Alla luce di ciò, presento questo mio ultimo "dipinto"... In verità un "pittorico libro"... Buona lettura...

(I take inspiration from the talent of one of the greatest geniuses in history, whose soul and pictorial greatness have found immense openings and contacts with superior spiritual worlds, because of a body purified and subtracted from the civilization of the meat". So I present my latest "painting". It is, in truth, a "pictorial book"... Enjoy the reading...)






Introduction

Francesco Calviello was born in Udine, a little town in northeast Italy, in 1975.
In 2001 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.
While displaying at several individual and group exhibitions, he developed his particular artistic talent dealing with particular subjects, and emerged in the specific theme of portraits.
He also gained experience in grafic art and scenery; in the end dedicating himself to painting decorative murals for internal and exernal walls.
At the time he lived in Venice, he studied many ancient Renaissance codes from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and developed, through numerous elaborate graphic designs, his anatomical knowledge of the human body.
In 2004, he was commissioned to paint the external face of the historic building of Napoleon Bonaparte's 'Treatise of Campoformio' (Campoformido, Italy). In 2003, he began teaching some art courses at Galleria Artemisia in Pozzuolo del Friuli (Udine). In addition to dedicating himself to his art, he holds art classes in a psychiatric residence in Udine to help people with mental health disorders.