Damiano Calì - artistic images from italyk
About the artist
Born in Rome on 15TH august 1972, he began to paint at the age of 14. He discovered the potentiality of his Apple in 1998.
Damiano Calì is a talented digital artists, his images are artworks filled of depth and unusual artistic research. He is not famous or well known because he decided to stay at the margin of the artistic society, or lobby as he love to describe it.
His passion for classic antiquity, and expecially for the renaissance and baroque artists is evident; art historian himself he loves to re-design the concepts and the ideas of the paintings he studied because he's well conviced that the humans have not changed throughout the centuries. He's chose the medium of photography as an artform, looking at the great genius as J.P. Witkin, Jan Saudek and Dave McKean.
The moral themes and the complex simbolgies which are behind his works are accompanied by his unique style. Trasparency, dramatic treatment of the surfaces, mysterious spaces where ghostly people live and oniric mood.
Welcome to Damiano Calì, Digital Portfolio
how you inspire me sir...words cannot come close to describe how i adore your work...each picture, a spell...both dangerous and beautiful..."
Hana
"Damiano Calì is a great digital artist, he has a wonderful unique ability to see things as others do not, a surreal mind that floats into a thousand pieces, he uses the medium of photography as an art form that others do not, he can touch the senses, he is a classic...in the true sense of tradition, every picture he takes, he puts everything into it, lighting, the framing the compostion the detail...when you see the veriety of his works, you see someone who is in love, searching exploring...trying to cross into new lands..."
Stephane
"Damiano's images are messages from the depth."
Carlo
Volevo fare un commento ad ogni singola foto ma mi sembrava assurdo.ù belle che abbia mai visto, belle e originali, le riproposizioni di opere d'arte sono degne di un grande esperto di fotografia come David La Chapelle , come lui in maniera originale, ironica e sfacciata riproponi l'arte in modo diverso, molto pù vicino a me, a noi, a chi cerca originalità nelle cose ormai viste e riviste.
davvero complimenti.
Giuno
What a sweet but short gallery you have here. Excellent work that really revives the area in which you live. I had the pleasure of visiting Rome and fell in love with the atmosphere and sculpture all around. It's so wonderful to see how you incorporate your influences into your style. Really you have an eye for beauty
fyuvix
you seem to have a restless imaginative mind, seeing your gallery, and a true sense of poetry, that is creation and invention,bravo!!
(...)There is this surrealist aura around your creations which conveys a big part of this poetry
I enjoy your gallery and am happy to see what will follow...
ZoroAstre
If you want to add a comment please fell free do do it, you can send me an! e-mail or, if you prefer you can drop me a line on Deviantart or on flickr.
* crtitics are allowed :) .
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10/10/08 Minor update
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09/06/08 New Site Goes Live
Well after a lot of hard work my new site has finally gone live. Enjoy or reject the style of my works
Looking Back
Looking Back
InfoLooking back my life, no concept, no mithology, only instinct, vision and dream
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2008
The Book's Lover
Et In Arcadia Ego
Et in Arcadia Ego II
Infoet in arcadia ego, joking with dramatic and moral theme,
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2008
The Bath
The Bath
InfoThe Bath is a visionary and oniric representation of the impossibility to understand the sense of life. Immerse in a mystique interiors he's looking at the clouds which are surrounding him. The book in the foreground give him the opportunities to understand from where we come from.
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2008
The Mannquin
The mannquin
InfoA vison in our ordinary life, when i saw one of the mannquin in a shop, perfectly imitating the shape of a human body, i imagined it coming to life dramatically
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2003
Damiano Calì
Damiano Calì
The series of passion
Info | Screen 2 Screen 3 Screen 4The inspiration of this series came to my mind when i studied a beautiful series of beato angelico's fresco in florence. Hands in the fresco works like a retoric (?) passsion of christ; my work bring in consideration the passion in erotic way, like a moment of lose of self perception, when all the world come outside and all the body is recepting the sensual warmness of a caress.
Models are: Camilla, valentina, valentina, Elisa
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2004-07
The Dreamer
The Dreamer
InfoThe most appreciate works i've done
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2005
Is a dream or a dream of a dream?
Et In Arcadia Ego
Et in Arcadia Ego
InfoEt In Arcadia Ego ("I am even in Arcadia"), a classic and moral theme of renaissance and baroque.
I thought at this image after seeing the beautiful Guercino's painting conserved at the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Rome (link) .
For an explication of the theme: italian: (link] ) English: link]
Model is: Camilla
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2007
The Soul
The Soul
InfoSoul; there's a Hole on a broken human body. He's alone, and show off this moment of loseness... fromo that hole night butterfly come out and fly away...
I added a poem wrtote on this picture by Andrea Masala, it's in Italian so onlu the world champion can read the wonderful words that Andrea spent for me; read it on Flickr
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2003
Urban Landscape II
Urban Landscape II
InfoOne of my Urban landscape, a woman dreaming on a carpet in the street, a shadow behind her is watching at her, an open scenery.
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2002
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Amor Vincit Omnia
InfoAmor vincit Omnia, Love is blind, and open a stage on own life. Eros and Erotic is a part of our life. I imagined Love on a bed, in a surreal stage...
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2005
The King
The King
InfoShakespeare inspired, what's a king without his crown? so i imagined an old king with his own crown fused on his head. When he grew old also the crown gets old.
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2002
Mater Dolorosa
Mater Dolorosa
Infomater dolorosa ora pro nobis peccatoribus,
nunc et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen
Medium: photography, Apple, Photoshop, Paper
year: 2002
Contact
Images are printed on Hanemhule Fine arts paper, different sizes. If you want to purchase prints or receive further information please contatc me:
Damiano Calì
P.S.: Because stupid people use the contact form to send me Spam i decided to remove it, F... U!
