PAOLO SABBATINI RANCIDORO        

 

Italian painter and calligrapher. He learned drawing and painting from Prof. Giuseppe Pende, a XX century master of his native region, the Marches, while studying humanities and classic literature. He has participated in several exhibitions and artistic contests, and lived in several foreign countries, especially in Asia, thus studying foreign cultures, from which he draws inspiration.

In 1996 he moved to Paris and updated his knowledge of the techniques of graphics, spray painting, decoration and artistic anatomy. In 1998 Rancidoro founded “Almirah”, a cybermagazine on INTERNET. Since 2006 he lives and works in Shanghai.

Paintings and drawings by Rancidoro belong to some museums’ permanent collections and to several private collections in the world. In the recent years he experimented a form of “body art”: impressions on human bodies on canvas, in honor of the “Holy Shroud” of  Turin. These works of art are a reflection on the theme of the resurrection of the spirit., and have been exhibited with great success in Paris and various cities in Romania.

From 2001 to 2003 Rancidoro has created “Spells”, a series of calligraphic and graphic works inspired to the charms and magical words of the ancient world, together with the Italian artist Franco de Courten (www.artincantations.com). These works, exhibited in Rome and in Saint-Petersbourg, have been published by the Italian State Press (Poligrafico dello Stato/Editalia) in a magnificent art book, and broadcasted on the Italian TV by Mirabella, the popular Italian anchorman.

From 2003 to 2005 Rancidoro has created pictorial versions of the “I Ching”, the ancient 64 Chinese exagrams, which have been exhibited at the prestigious Gallery “de Crescenzo e Viesti” in Rome.  

In 2005, The 49 original works "Incantesimi" (Charms), painting and calligraphy on paper, and the book of artist with the same name, published by EDITALIA, in which they are splendidly reproduced and commented, are exhibited at the Nomi Gallery of Saint Petersburg from November 28 to December 15.