Lucio Salvatore |
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Born in Italy, May 3rd 1975. |
| 2000 | First trip to Brasil, 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. |
| 2001 | Landscapes - Salvatore explores Rio de Janeiro in a series of photographs of the city landscapes at sunrise.  |
| 2002 | Salvatore documents a fire burning on the mountains of Gaeta. This experience determined "the jump" that cancelled the distance between the artist and his art. |
| 2003 | First experiments 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. |
| 2004 | Photomenology - exploring the Matter, color and elements in continuous flowing.
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| 2005 | Language - Salvatore's paintings begin to 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. Polyptics: αρχη(Arche'), το απειρον(To Apeiron), τεχχνη(ekne). αρχη των οντων τοαπειρον: The beginning that destines and governs until the end is the infinite=limitless.     |
| 2006 | Language - paintings of the Greek words Fusis, Eros, Polemos with a trait that tends to conceal the line in the matter
underneath and makes them difficult to decode: "the real reason - for their obscurity - comes from the fact that their truth is hiding, because the essence of truth always hides". LS  |
| 2007 | Fusis is 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.  |
| 2008 | Salvatore paints with Blood. "Every painting that I create is inspired by the origin of things and by Nature (φυσις). I feel a stronger tension on the canvas, the stains of blood are spreading and inside a battle is fought, violence of man against man, man against the world." LSt.  |
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