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Raffaele Palma is one of the most eclectic Italian satirical
Satire
Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...

 artists, and humorists.
The holder of the Premio Satira Politica Forte dei Marmi  a prize for Political Satire in the sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...

  section of a national competition held in Tuscany
Tuscany
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, he has also organised numerous exhibitions himself in Italy
Italy
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, in various institutional contexts. He’s also the author of various works on humorism
Humorism
Humorism, or humoralism, is a now discredited theory of the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health...

, several of which have been published by the press of Marco Valerio Edizioni of Torino.

Biographical Notes

Raffaele Palma is an author with a solid artistic formation, having graduated at Turin’s Fine Arts Institute, Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino, where he studied the works of several outstanding painters.
As well as having published numerous works, he has curated many exhibitions and shows, which have contributed in Italy to the development of new innovations in the field of humorism in the visual arts
Visual arts
The visual arts are art forms that create works which are primarily visual in nature, such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, and often modern visual arts and architecture...

.

Raffaele Palma is also an eclectic educator, and in 1984, together with Giorgio Cavallo, another Italian social satirist, he founded in Turin the Caus - Centro arti umoristiche e satiriche
Caus - Centro arti umoristiche e satiriche
The Centro Arti Umoristiche e Satiriche Centre of Humorous and Satirical Arts, is born in 1984 at Torino.Its founders, Giorgio Cavallo and Raffaele Palma, managed in a brief time to bring together a group of Italian humorists and other enthusiasts without any political or other axes to grind.It’s...

, Centre of Humorous and Satirical Arts.

Institutional and Social Commitments

Raffaele Palma was one of the first people in Italy to develop national interest in the themes of Comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

  and Humorism
Humorism
Humorism, or humoralism, is a now discredited theory of the makeup and workings of the human body, adopted by Greek and Roman physicians and philosophers, positing that an excess or deficiency of any of four distinct bodily fluids in a person directly influences their temperament and health...

 as sources of wellbeing and health, as well as means of resolving psychological and social conflicts, especially in the context of public institutions.
In April 1989 he organised the important Workshop Sorriso e Salute (Say “Cheese!” and stay Healthy) under the patronage of the Ordine Nazionale dei Medici and the Ordine Nazionale dei Farmacisti, the Italian Registers of Doctors and Pharmacists, at Turin’s Centro Incontro. On the same theme, he’s also organised seminars on “Laughter as Therapy” at Turin Medical School’s Institute of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapy, Facoltà di Medicina di Torino, Istituto di Farmacologia e Terapie Sperimentali.
He’s also taught Humorism and Satire for degree courses at Turin University Education Faculty, Facoltà di Magistero di Torino, and has been a consultant on humorism for the City of Turin Education Department, Assessorato all'Istruzione, Comune di Torino, where he organised courses to update teachers during the 1980s and 1990s.

Calligraphy

Another of his interesting fields of enquiry, unfortunately neglected by the media
News media
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, is his reawakening of interest in Calligraphy
Calligraphy
Calligraphy is a type of visual art. It is often called the art of fancy lettering . A contemporary definition of calligraphic practice is "the art of giving form to signs in an expressive, harmonious and skillful manner"...

 in many workshops, meetings and exhibitions he has organised to explore the design
Design
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, of alphabets, initials, number
Number
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s and trade marks with links to the local area. At present, he runs courses in Calligraphy in Turin schools of every type and level, as well as organising a calligraphic workshop: L'Arte degli Amanuensi, The Scribe’s Art, at Unitre – Università della Terza Età a Turin further education
Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...

 institute for the elderly. Several of his books on humorism have been published in Italy by Marco Valerio Edizioni.

Chronology of works

  • Senza Parole (1980)
  • In soprannome del Popolo Italiano (1983)
  • La pianta del riso - Guida alla didattica dell'humour (1985)
  • L'albero della cova - Humour e habitat (1987)
  • Torino arguta - Guida alla città ed ai musei di Torino (1987)
  • Sul martirio e sulle pene (1989)
  • Autoironia (1992)
  • Dio sorride. Compatiamolo! - 500 aforismi, massime, proverbi, epitaffi, apoftegmi (1993)
  • W.C. - 100 aforismi lascivi e massime liscive (1994)
  • Sindone le due tracce (1995)
  • Sindonibus - Grafiche e aforismi attorno alla Sindone (1997)
  • Io stella e la luna per traverso (1997)
  • Cavalcando la notte - Saggio sull'insonnia, il sonno, la veglia e il lavoro notturno (2001)
  • Mal oscuro e umor nero - Saggio sulla vita di qua e la voglia dell'aldilà (2003)
  • Manuale pratico della cancellazione (2006)

Exhibitions

  • Premio Satira Politica Forte dei Marmi (1980)
  • Satira Politica Tridimensionale (1982)
  • Ceramiche e Terrecotte Grottesce (1983)

Exhibitions of Graphic Art

  • Tema: Humour e Satira (1986)
  • Sussurrli d’Amor (1987)
  • Il Volo del Mago Urbano – Su testi di G. Valperga (1988)
  • Calligrafollia – Quando le lettere danno i numeri (1989)
  • Femminilità. Il nudo nel disegno artistico (2005)

Exhibitions of Photography

  • Il Grottesco nell’Architettura Torinese: Ghigni, ringhi e smorfie, dal 1500 ad oggi (1985)
  • La Simbologia nell’Arte Funeraria del Cimitero Monumentale di Torino (1986)
  • Il Volo del Mago Urbano – Su testi di G. Valperga (1990)
  • Il Grottesco nei Decori di Susa (1992)
  • Torino Smembrata: Arti, Viscere e amputazioni sui monumenti Torinesi (1994)
  • Fregi & Sfregi della Torino monumentale e architettonica (1997)
  • Scalinate e Dislivelli in Torino (1999)
  • Torino nello Zodiaco (2008)
  • Torino dalla A di androne alla Z di zerbino (2009)
  • Torino Sorprendente (2010)

Exhibitions of Calligraphy

  • Torino Val Ben una Cifra – Monogrammi, cifre, lettere e numeri sui palazzi e sull’araldica di *Torino (2002)
  • Torino ti Prende alla Lettera – Alfabeti sulle architetture e sull’arredo urbano (2003)
  • Lettere dal Piemonte (2004)

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