Massimo Casalini

Massimo Casalini


About

I was born in Livorno, Italy. I'm 40 years old

Unconsciously, I'm always been interested in fine arts. Since I was a child, I wonder about visual perception: my school teacher told me sea is blue, sky is azure and trees have brown trunks and green leaves. I, instead, insisted to paint the sea by using all types of blue and green available...
At 17, with the discovered of Corto Maltese, the comic's world burst open. My favourite authors are, in addition to Hugo Pratt: Milo Manara, Vittorio Giardino, Attilio Micheluzzi, Andrea Pazienza; among foreigners I like a lot Winsor McCoy with his Little Nemo,and L'eternauta di Francisco Solano Lopez e Hector German Oesterheld, but it will be crowds of authors to list!! I was about 20, when I enrolled at first for advertising graphics course and afterwards for a local comics school. The art question persisted latent for next years; I was involved in disparate experiences: skipper assistant on sailing boat, entertainment organiser and sail instructor in a holiday camp, ice-cream maker, paperhanger, wall painter, CAD draughtsman...
And after all these youthful experiences, today I conduct the Civil engineering library for University of Pisa .
In 1994 I enrolled for Photographic Club called "ALFA" in Livorno. Photography has been a flash, too. Having dozens of friends around, with your same passion was exciting. I remember that period with nostalgia. After that, I've begun to move on my own, researching, testing, and finishing with trasforming photography in a visual experience on the border between hallucination and adventure. Thanks to photography I've met incredible types; a good 90% during BAM meetings.
After the very happy meeting with the master Mario Ferrante, (I owe him all my technical and spiritual knowledges about painting), in 2002, painting (another latency in my life), broke down the door separing myself from going along the patway of knowledge. From then on, fine-arts (painting, in detail) keep my head busy. It's with curiosity and dedication, often with obstinacy that I try to reach, through painting, a serene mental condition. I avoid, for now, to represent the world I live in, with his ugly things and degradations, recreating, on the contrary, an inward and idealized world. I use arts like a drug-addicted use heroin. And forgiven the harsh comparison...
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Location
pisa, Italy
Website
http://www.massimocasalini.it
Education
Formazione:
1988 Diploma di perito elettrotecnico
1989 Corso di grafica pubblicitaria organizzato dalla Provincia di Livorno
1990 Corso di disegno e fumetto presso l'associazione culturale "Athenaeum" di Livorno
1993-1998 Socio presso Associazione Livornese Foto Amatori (ALFA)
Dal 2002 Allievo del Maestro Mario Ferrante

Esposizioni e concorsi:
1994 Mostra fotografica collettiva a Livorno
1997 Mostra fotografica collettiva a Padola di Cadore
1998 Mostra fotografica collettiva a Livorno
1998 Segnalazione al Concorso fotografico Cantiere Orlando
1998 2 classificato al concorso annuale del Circolo fotografico ALFA
1999 Invio il mio lavoro fotografico alla Biennale per giovani artisti di Torino
1999 Classificato "Fine work" al 3rd Internet International Art/Photo Contest
1999 Ammesso a BAM (By Any Means). BAM un'iniziativa fotografica nata in internet
2000 Ammesso a BAM2 e BAM3
2000 Ammesso a BAM4
2002 Fotografo ufficiale del Palio Marinaro di Livorno
2003 Mostra collettiva di fotografia al Parterre di Piazza della Liberta', a Firenze
2004 Partecipazione al Premio Arte Mondadori - sezione grafica.
2004 Mostra collettiva "Arte in studio" Palazzo Vitelli Pisa
2005 Partecipazione alla 6 mostra di pittura di piccolo formato Citt di Massarosa
2005 Partecipazione fuori concorso alla mostra di pittura tenutasi in concomitanza del 1 Premio Citt di Pannarano (BN)
2005 Segnalazione di merito al 13 Premio di Natale citt di Livorno (pittura)
2006 Partecipazione alla 7 mostra di pittura di piccolo formato Citt di Massarosa
2007 Realizzazione fotografie per il libro: "Centralit ed uso del suolo urbano: Lucca" di Michele Bortoli e Roberto Castiglia
2008 30 artisti a confronto, Pontelandolfo (BN), estemporanea di pittura: Segnalazione di merito
2008 Collettiva di pittura in occasione del libro: "Il nuovo allievo di Fiffner" di Elena Barbini - Livorno
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Friends

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Psychotatto n. 1

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The Alpha male

Painting

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Events & Exhibitions

Events

Future Shows: 21-26/07/2009
"Non baciamo le mani"
Collettiva a Cerreto Sannita (BN)

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    Ethereal-Spirit ! .
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