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.