Fabio Calvetti was born in 1956 in Certaldo, in the province of Florence. He graduated from the Liceo Artistico in 1978 and went on to complete his studies in the School of Painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. His artistic formation took shape amid the experimental currents of the 1970s, blending unconventional figuration with pop impulses and visual poetry. Over time his visual language became more stripped-down and effective, creating compositions that still reveal traces of his early influences—passionate moments, and Hopper-like, elongated solitudes. Calvetti’s work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions throughout Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Korea, Luxembourg, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Oceania and the United States, with a particular focus on France and Japan. In Tokyo, the Shiraishi Gallery included him in its “World Artist Tour” alongside George Segal, Tom Wesselmann and Alex Katz. Beginning in 2008 he was honored with a retrospective at the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Arezzo. He then exhibited at Palazzo Venezia in Rome, the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice and the Chiostro di Sant’Agostino in Pietrasanta.