Carlo
Vellani

I graduated in Bologna University ('97) in DAMS, course of Cinema and Theatre.

In the 80's and 90's had several experiences as a documentary director and short films of my own production of narrative and experimental type: the most important 'In The Shadow of These Dense Arms' been recognition in Italy and abroad film-festivals.

It was about ecology, inspired by the book by Italo Calvino 'The Rampant Baron'.

In '92 I make artistic direction of theatre show in Laurentian celebration about Lorenzo De' Medici in the Medici Castle of Cafaggiolo in Mugello, Firenze.

Then I abandoned cinema and theatre for obvious economic reasons and I became entrepreneur in industrial steel furniture as artistic design furniture.

Sculpture had always been a passion of mine with materials such as crete, so started experimenting with steel in small welded blocks for a large mask, as well as complements of furniture; later I created some figurative-expressionist compositions even high to cm 150.

My subjects always date back to cinema and theatre, there is always an action in motion, a theatrical story, the myth.

The themes range from Ulysses of Omero, Dante, but also to Hollywood characters, of how to theatre by S. Beckett.