Biographical Note

Edoardo Salvestrini.

He was born in Padua in 1947. He spent his childhood in Padua and Mantua.
At twelve he lives in Ariccia (Rome): here, in the church of the Assumption, built in 1664 by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, spends most of his time observing and drawing, the circular space inspired from the Pantheon, the great stucco angels of the dome, and the seventeenth-century paintings.

In 1961 he settles in Milan. He takes the courses of graphic design at Società Umanitaria (a pupil of Massimo Vignelli, Bob Noorda, Giancarlo Iliprandi and Mario De Micheli in art history). At Brera Academy he attends the Free Course of Nude and the School of the Craftsmen (awarded twice with silver medal: 1965, 1967).
Since 1965 he works as graphic designer with internationally renowned studios and companies, including: Olivetti, Franco Maria Ricci publisher, Unimark International. Then he devotes himself to illustration, mainly in the publishing field (Rizzoli, L’Espresso, Longanesi, Frassinelli, Bompiani).
In 1983 Rizzoli publishes the volume “Manuale del Viaggiatore Interplanetario” [Handbook of the Interplanetary Traveller] texts by Gianni Guadalupi, whith whom Salvestrini collaborates through the creation of sixty colour and thirty black and white plates; during the same year he makes the manifesto of PEN Club’s world literary conference, San Giorgio island, Venice.

In parallel to his activities as graphic designer, illustrator and painter, Salvestrini studies music and voice: from 1970 to 1973 at the Training School for Artists of the Choir of Teatro alla Scala. Then, preferring the baroque vocality, he performs in many concerts as component of the choir and as tenor soloist. In 1980 he performs in the small choir of the opera “La Testa di Bronzo” by Carlo Evasio Soliva (first absolute revival of the twentieth-century), at the theatre La Piccola Scala of Milan. In 2006, thirty years after his first performance in concert, he takes part to the choir “Le Voci di S. Fedele” in two concerts with music by J.S. Bach and B. Bettinelli.

A lover of early painting (as well as architecture), he studies the styles and technical methods of Mantegna, Titian, Rubens and Goya; as well as of Claude Lorrain, Watteau, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi. His deep study on the pictorial works and writings by Giorgio de Chirico gives great contribution to his artistic training.
From 1982 to 1993 Salvestrini studies under the guidance of the Indian philosopher and writer Baba Pjare Lhal Bedi [1], who, by giving courses and conferences, opens a new perspective on creativity through deep self-observation methods, with regard to singing, painting and the role of art in the society.

Edoardo Salvestrini is the author of special techniques he teaches in courses and master-classes: “Il Canto dell’Anima”, for psychophysical balance and the vocality; and the course “Self-Expression through Colour - The Creativity of the Soul” for discovering the sources of creativity.

  1. ^ Baba Pjare Lhal Bedi. Lahore, Punjab, 1909 - Rivarolo Canavese, Turin, 1993. Writer, philosopher, mystic.