Salvo 1947-2015
Works
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SalvoCaseggiato nel bosco, 2000Colour lithograph79 x 57 cmSalvo, Caseggiato nel bosco, 2000€ 900.00
Biography
Salvo
Caseggiato nel bosco, 2000
Colour lithograph
79 x 57 cm
Edition of 150
Salvo, the pseudonym of Salvatore Mangione, was a central and independent figure in the landscape of Italian contemporary art. After his conceptual beginnings in the early 1970s—during which he took part in the major theoretical investigations of the period alongside artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Giulio Paolini, and Emilio Prini—Salvo embarked on a radically personal path, returning to painting at a time when it appeared marginal within the artistic debate.
From the mid-1970s onward, he developed an immediately recognizable pictorial language, centered on urban landscapes, architectural views, and natural scenes immersed in an unreal light and constructed through fields of intense, saturated color. His painting, only seemingly naïf, is in fact the result of a profound reflection on the history of art, the representation of time, and the concept of memory. Through a cultivated and conscious use of color, Salvo creates images suspended outside of time, engaging with tradition while maintaining a strong expressive autonomy.
Over the course of his career, he exhibited in major international institutions and galleries, establishing himself as one of the most coherent and recognizable voices in Italian art of the second half of the twentieth century.
