Francesco Toraldo

Francesco Toraldo was born in Catanzaro on November 9, 1960. Son of art, he was interested in painting from an early age, attending his father's studio and studying the great masters: the chromatisms of Fauve painting and German expressionism influenced him. At the end of the 80s he moved to Sicily and began collaborating with important art galleries. In 2005 he took part in "Pescara Jazz" with a personal exhibition dedicated to this musical style, his recurring theme in his works; in 2007 he took part in the XXIX edition of Ancona Jazz. In this period he begins to deal with new issues related to sport, such as basketball, skiing, tennis, surfing, sailing, In 2009 he participates in the "Mediterranean Games" in Pescara with a collection of works representing the sports.

In 2008 in Rome, in collaboration with Amedeo Minghi, he inaugurated the traveling exhibition "The greats of Italian music", a collection of 40 works on the greatest exponents of post-war Italian music. In March 2011 the MACA (Museum of Contemporary Art Acri) will dedicate a personal exhibition to him. After a difficult period due to the separation from his wife, the actress Nadia Rinaldi, he finds serenity thanks to the painting that comes alive with new colors. He decides to settle permanently in Sicily, in Agrigento, with his new partner: he begins a period of intense and laborious experimentation, he resumes working on various supports, such as paper. According to his own statement "on paper my language is free from any rhetoric and the sign does not take into account any rational principle". Important critics and artists have been interested in Francesco Toraldo's work, including just to name a few: Carlo Roselli, Anna Caterina Bellati, Alessandra Redaelli, Paolo Levi, Moisè Eugenio Asta, Amedeo Minghi and Vittorio Sgarbi with many reviews on the artist.