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Salvo Untitled, 1987
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm (unframed)
54 x 44,5 cm (framed)
54 x 44,5 cm (framed)
Salvo's cityscapes and landscapes are references to places that actually exist, but have been so strongly reworked that they become a kind of Arcadia. They are utopias that seem to be outside of time and yet are familiar, like childhood memories. Exuberant color and light are characteristic of the paintings, which are at the same time devoid of people and thus seem strangely inanimate. Geometric shapes combine with amorphous cloud formations to characterize what is depicted as dreamy visions. The depiction plays with familiar impressions and so, although you have never been there, you might think of a familiar Italian mountain village that seems near and yet far.