Antonio CALLÀ was born on 4 December 1946 at Catanzazo in Calabria.
His childhood was spent in Serra San Bruno, where he went to school.
He was obliged to break off his schooling to seek work.
Already as a child his interest in art was awakened, and he was fascinated by the Charterhouse of Serra San Bruno and the Carthusians.
1965 to 1970 he worked in a fish factory in Cuxhaven in North Germany, where he met and married an employee from Galicia in Northern Spain.
He has two children.
From 1975 he worked in the office of a factory at Lippe in Westphalia.
In August 1981 he took up an employment at the hospital of Serra San Bruno, first as an ambulance driver for five years, then as an assistant in the pharmacy until his retirement.
His leisure is entirely devoted to his art.
He has executed numerous works of art for the Charterhouse of Serra San Bruno, including restoring the stained-glass windows in the Great Cloister.
He has produced paintings, sculptures, commemorative medals and terracotta statues.
His work has been frequently exhibited in Italy, most recently at Serra San Bruno in October 2013, but also in Austria at the Charterhouse of Gaming and in Galicia, Spain.
- by James HOGG
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Antonio CALLÀ
Via Nazario Suaro N, 9
ITALIE/ITALY/ITALIA - 89822 SERRA SAN BRUNO
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