Salvo

Leonforte (Sicily), 1947 – Turin, 2015.

In the early years of his career Salvo (pseudonym of Salvatore Mangione) was influenced by his contacts with Arte Povera and American conceptual artists. He worked on photography and the creation of tombstones with engraved words or phrases such as “I am the best” until 1973, the year in which he began to devote himself to painting, never to leave it again. In his paintings he takes up the fifteenth-century Italian tradition, citing ancient works in a simplified key and, often, introducing the element of self-portrait. In 1984 he was invited by Maurizio Calvesi to “Arte allo specchio”, at the 41st Venice Biennale, and in 1986 he published the treatise “Della Pittura – Imitazione di Wittgenstein”. His works are now part of important public and private collections: Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato; GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; MART Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto; mambo Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna; MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo del Novecento, Milano; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

Recent solo exhibitions

2023
Salvo, Perrotin Secondary Market, Paris
Salvo, Sant’Andrea De Scaphis, Rome
Capricci, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Io sono Salvo, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin

2022
Salvo. Sicilie e città, Dep Art Gallery, Milan (catalogue)
Mitologie domestiche, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin

2021
Autoritratto come Salvo, MACRO, Rome

2020
Salvo, Autogrill, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Salvo, Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Salvo – Masterworks, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz

2019
Salvo. Il colore ovunque, Imago Art Gallery, Lugano
Salvo, en las Islas Canarias, Fundación Cristino de Vera, San Cristóbal de la laguna, Tenerife (catalogue)
Omaggio a Salvo, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Pietrasanta
Salvo – Ventiquattr’ore di luce, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin

2017
Salvo – In Engadina, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz (catalogue)
La strada di casa, Galleria In Arco, Turin, curated by Luca Beatrice (catalogue)
Salvo – Un’arte senza compromessi, Galleria Dep Art, Milan, curated by Matteo Galbiati (catalogue)
Salvo. Bar e chiese, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Boetti/ Salvo, Vivere Lavorando Giocando, MASILugano – Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (catalogue)
Se io disegno questo, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin, 2017
Salvo – In Engadina, Galerie Andrea Caratsch, St. Moritz (catalogue)
La strada di casa, Galleria In Arco, Turin, curated by Luca Beatrice (catalogue)
Salvo – Un’arte senza compromessi, Galleria Dep Art, Milan, curated by Matteo Galbiati (catalogue)
Salvo. Bar e chiese, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
Boetti/ Salvo, Vivere Lavorando Giocando, MASILugano – Museo d’arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano (catalogue)
Se io disegno questo, Norma Mangione Gallery, Turin

2016
Salvo-Io sono il migliore, Ierimonti Gallery, New York
The Baron in the trees: works by Salvo, Jerome Zodo Gallery, London
Opere di Salvo, Biasutti & Biasutti, Turin (catalogue)

2015
Galleria Mazzoli, Modena (catalogue)
Omaggio a Salvo, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Salvo: Il Migliore, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, curated by Alberto Zanchetta

2014
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin (catalogue)

2012
Marco Canepa Gallery, Courmayeur (catalogue)
Fiori di maggio, Galleria Zonca & Zonca, Milan
Incontri a Montellori, Fattoria Montellori, Fucecchio (site specific project)

2010
Favole di marmo, Cà di Frà, Milan
Récits, Dep Art, Milan, curated by Alberto Zanchetta (catalogue)
Universo a colori, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli (Palazzo Wolkenstein), Trento (catalogue)
Salvo – Preparativi per la sera, Galleria Zonca & Zonca, Milan (catalogue)

2009
Salvo imprevisti, Galleria Atlantica, Altavilla, curated by Luigi Meneghelli (catalogue)