Salvo (Salvatore Manzhone) - 1947
 

I was fascinated by this artist. :) And the example of the distinguished Vines, decided to create a theme for him.

Manzhone Salvatore (Salvatore Mangione), also known as Salvo (Salvo ') was born in Leonforte in the province of Enna May 22, 1947.
He spent his childhood in Sicily and in 1956 he moved with his family from Catania to Turin, where he showed an interest in art, visit the great exhibition of Francis Bacon in the Galleria d'Arte Moderna in September 1962. The next summer, participate in the 121st Exhibition of Fine Arts, presents a copy of a picture of Leonardo. Draws and trying to sell portraits, copies of paintings by Rembrandt and Van Gogh and a variety of styles, from Fontana to Chagall.

After studying in Parizhe.V between September and December 1968 in Paris, engaged in the cultural atmosphere, postoroennoy on the student movement.
Back in Turin, started attending the young generation of artists Alighieri Boetti, Dzor and Penone and critics Renato Barilli, Germano Celant and Achille Bonito Oliva, a meeting place for them is a gallery Gian Enzo Sperone.
Summer is a long stay in Afghanistan. Begins to search their own style, doing the work in which the trend is clear - the desire for the ego, narcissism, the link with the past and cultural history - that will be the highlight of his later research.
In February of 1970. In Turin, the Gallery of Gian Enzo Sperone 12 represents the public self-portraits - inserts his own face in the newspaper clippings speaking as a worker, the guerrillas, American soldiers, a Nazi officer, a ballerina, a pilot, an American, Russian.
These photographs are presented to the public, along with oshkolnymi notebooks in which he copied the Inferno of Dante and some of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.
In May, arranges a solo exhibition at Acme Gallery in Brescia, and presents three images in which he blesses the city.
In December, closing the year exhibition in Milan, in the gallery Françoise Lambert. Invite reproduced as a portrait of Raphael.
Produces a lot of pranks series of marble plaques on which are engraved the words or phrases such as Idiot, "" Breath of the Father "," I'm the best. "
A series of plaques will continue until the end of 1972, with elements from various sources, such as the Assyrian Ashurbanipal text weeping or Aesop's fable of the tortoise and the eagle.
In 1971, he engaged Tricolore (Italian flag), which wrote his name neon letters.
In the same year by Robert Barry, met with Paul Maenz. Thus began his long friendship with a German merchant, who in June egorabot arranges an exhibition in his gallery in Cologne. The exhibition is a huge success, among the works presented board Ich Bin Der Beste, later destroyed galleristom.
In June 1972, Salvatore meets with John Weber, who arrived in Italy at the exhibition "420 West Broadway at the Spoleto Festival. In 1972, a New York gallery of Weber, he arranges his last show of conceptual works.

1973 was a landmark year, Salvatore returns to the scene with the restoration of traditional methods, which are also present in several of his portraits of blessing made between 1968 and 1969.
With the intention to revise the history of the artist continues to work in the style of 70 - x begun with a portrait in the style of Raphael. The mention of ancient works, where the artist finds ways nartsisticheskogo self-expression, he looks for inspiration in the works of Raphael and Cosmè Tura. The exhibition is held in December 73rd at Milan Gallery Franco Toselli, causing mixed reactions among visitors, as well as negative evaluation of Gillo Dorfles and a German collector, Louis (?)
(to be continued)

A few more pictures

All right, Louis, we will without a question mark :)

Funny artist, very trechentistsky - as if Paolo Uccello was paint landscapes, well, or Cosme Tura. Rafael here, in my opinion, less paid.
But, of course, the Italian painting of the twentieth century will also be present - a little Chirico, Morandi little - but in bucolic version.
However, charming.

Thank you, iside :)

Since 1976 there has been a new milestone in the artist's work.
He prepared a series of landscapes in a simplified scheme, with bright colors, knights among the ruins and the architectural vision of classical columns at different times of day, from dawn to dusk.
At the invitation. Tommaso Trini participated at the Venice Biennale.
In the period between the end of 1979 and 1980, is preparing a series of landscapes with country houses, churches and monuments.

The summer of 1984 participated in the 12th Venice Biennale with six paintings.
Traveled to Greece, Yugoslavia and Turkey is a series of landscapes where there are monumental minarets.
In 1987, the exhibition "Differences and consistency" ( "Divergenze e corrispondenze") Galleria dell'Oca in Rome, where creativity is compared with Salvatore De Chirico.

Paintings Pieter Saenredam, Dutch artist's mid-seventeenth century, inspired Salvo and in 1989, passes an exhibition of paintings in the style of urban landscapes with Gothic cathedrals.

Since the 90's until today, several series of paintings devoted to the places he visited, like China, Arab countries (Oman, Syria, United Arab Emirates), Tibet and Nepal, Ethiopia, in addition to much of Europe, especially in north.

In 2005 he took part in the XIV Quadrennial exhibition in Rome and the Second Biennial in Beijing.

Concludes theme photograph of the artist, early conceptual work, two figurative paintings and still-life

iside, looked at the Italian tricolor with the inscription SALVO and remembered that this is also translated into Russian as "safe". So?

Cyril Syzransky, with emphasis on the "A" - as a safe, saved, reliable, but the artist was a short name with the accent on "O" I do not always stamped stress.

Biography I have greatly reduced because the number of exhibitions and participation - an incredible, nothing is said that the motive was to escape from the conceptual landscapes, often do not know whether this occurs in painters, but in this case a sharp turn.

Some characters of those who took part in the creative destiny of Salvatore - the key to the development of Italian art in the 60-90-ies. For some, like Salvo 'they opened the door, and for some, like my husband - these doors were tightly shut because of the political opposition.

Now, fortunately, has got a lot of new people in Italy - and critics and curators, the situation has changed dramatically :)