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Lucio Salvatore |
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Born in Italy, May 3rd 1975. |
| 2009 | Salvatore paints "Eros", a series of works created with Blood on Plexiglas with an aesthetic inspired by the simplicity of primitive art, but painted with the violence typical of the Viennese Actionism movement. Eros = Physis, the Exhibition in Galeria Arte Em Dobro, Rio De Janeiro, closes an important chapter of Salvatore's work, of confrontation between photography and paintings on the path to the origins of things, where both Eros and Nature belong to.  |
| 2007-2008 | Salvatore chooses Blood, one of the element of his previous organic works, as his only media: "With blood the time of representation ends and things start to really happen in my art. A stronger tension emerges on the canvas, the stains of blood are spreading and inside a battle is fought of man against man, man against his world". This War (Polemos) rules in Salvatore's works until the last paintings of this series Dell'Origine where the artist searches a primordial sense of infinite (Apeiron).
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| 2006 | Physis, the Greek word for Nature and for pre-Socratic Philosophers it was synonymous of Being; Salvatore search for the origin of things flows into a series of paintings inspired by the colors of the Tyrrhenian sea and by the immensity of the Brazilian Amazon Forest. At the end of the season the paintings were all crossed by stains of Blood that in time became stronger and more violent. The artist sensibility is unconsciously expressing the pain and denouncing the destruction of the environment.
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| 2005 | Language - Salvatore's works speak the language of the origins, the words of Greek Philosophers Anaximander and Heraclitus; with the same esthetics of Photomenology, Salvatore paints and photographs the works while they are burning.
arch twn ontwn to apeiron The beginning that destines and governs until the end is the infinite=limitless. Salvatore Paints with fire Greek words such as Physis, Eros, Polemos with a trait that tends to conceal the line in the matter underneath and makes them difficult to decode: "the real reason comes from the fact that their truth is hiding, because the essence of truth always hides". |
| 2003-2004 | Photomenology - exploring the Matter, color and elements in continuous flowing. Salvatore creates most of this works by painting with fire in the bottom of a circular pool the center of his studio. Fire has been the center of Salvatore’s work as a subject in his early creations and as the fundamental element of his paintings and large scale photographs.
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| 2002 | Salvatore documents a fire burning In the south of Italy. Salvatore starts to experiment painting with fire on the bottom of the pool that becomes the center of his studio. Salvatore photographs his paintings in motion, while they burn: the word for this body of work is Photomenology.
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| 2000-2001 | Salvatore lives in Rocinha, the largest slum in South America. He documents the stories of the community and develops a series of portraits of the children that live in extreme poverty on the roads of Rio de Janeiro.
At the end of this first trip to South America, Salvatore develops a series of works that explore Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro’s landscapes.  |
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