Calligrapher, President of Turin calligraphers' guild, calligraphy teacher
Born in Turin, Italy, in 1970; where he now lives and works.
He received his professional training at the School of Graphic and Fine Arts. A long period of self-instruction followed during which he developed a personal style of calligraphy and studied with numerous calligraphers and internationally recognized masters of penmanship at the Scriptorium de Toulouse, France.
President of Turin calligraphers′ guild Dal Segno alla Scrittura under the International Centre for Calligraphy Arts in Rome (CIAC)
He has exhibited his work in collective and one-man shows in Italy, France, Belgium, Spain, Japan, and Pakistan.
Free-lance calligrapher and calligraphy art designer, Polello deals mainly in designing calligraphic logotypes, trademarks, packaging, and publishing. Receives numerous commissions for large-scale calligraphic works, such as floor decoration, murals, stand design, design at public art exhibitions, hotels, private apartments.
“Roland Barthes wrote that ones relationship to writing is a relationship with the body. Eastern scripts, whether based on an alphabet or on pictograms, are by consequence calligraphic. Calligraphy in the East is a noble art, even a magic art, which requires a psychosomatic. In the West, one aims to tame the body and then to emancipate it; in the East to govern the body and then to refine its pleasure.The development of Oriental writing is thus painting in all its immensity….. While Oriental and Arabic calligraphy offer the calligrapher greater freedom without sacrificing the legibility, the Western calligrapher for years has been seeking ways to experiment without ruining the clarity of the written word”.