Francesco Toraldo Biography
Son of Enzo, also a painter, the young Francesco began to take an interest in painting. Influenced by his father and by frequenting his studio, the young Francesco was introduced by his parent to the first rudiments of art. The observer finds himself in front of an artist who has certainly absorbed some fundamental teachings from the art museum of the last century, and not only the chromatisms of Fauve painting, which immediately appears here as the first and obvious stylistic reference, but also the visual insights of post-war German expressionism. [photo 1 (2)] At the end of the 1980s he moved to Sicily and began collaborating with important art galleries. The passion for jazz music, a recurring theme in his works, led the president of "Pescara Jazz" to invite him to the event with a personal exhibition in 2005. In 2007 one of his solo exhibitions was hosted at the Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona on the occasion of the XXIX edition of Ancona Jazz. In 2008 the Giulianova Splendor Art Museum will hold the exhibition "from New Orleans to Beijing", in the same period, it begins to deal with new sporting themes such as basketball, skiing, tennis, surfing, sailing enrich the Toraldo's work, and it is precisely these new themes that earned him the interest of the organizing committee of the XVI "Mediterranean Games" which will be held in Pescara in 2009. In fact, he was asked for a collection of works that represent the sports disciplines that will be held during the games. In collaboration with Amedeo Minghi at the "Rome University of Fine Arts Rufa" in Rome in December 2008 the traveling exhibition "The greats of Italian music" was inaugurated, a collection of 40 works on the greatest exponents of post-war Italian music, in the catalog a presentation of the melodist Amedeo Minghi. In Calabria in 2010, as part of the Bancartis project, now in its fourth edition, the work “Buster Williams”, an oil on canvas by Toraldo, was presented in the Sala De Cadorna of the BCC Mediocrati business center in Rende. The painting is a preview of the exhibition that the MACA (Acri Contemporary Art Museum) will dedicate to the artist starting from March 2011.
