Perrotin
Salvo , Italie
Salvo, San Nicola Arcella, 2008, Oil on canvas, 42 x 52 cm | 16 1/2 x 20, 1/2 inch, Unique, #72492
I have always enjoyed the ambiguous side go things: the false naiveté, the false primitivism, for everything that is seemingly intelligent and technical, I find annoying. It leaves no mystery. Salvo
Salvatore Mangione, better known as Salvo, was born in Leonforte, Sicily in 1947. As his family moved to Turin in the mid-1950s, he quickly became acquainted with its vibrant art scene—he met the most prominent figures of Arte Povera such as Mario and Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gilberto Zorio, and he befriended Alighiero Boetti who he would share a studio with until 1971. By the end of the 1960s, Salvo also came into contact with several renowned American conceptual artists Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt and Robert Barry, and got noticed by world-famous curator Harald Szeemann who invited him to take part in Documenta 5, Kassel in 1972.
While at the early stages of his career his production was distinctly conceptual and questioned the role of the artist, in 1973 he drifted back to figurative painting by placing colour at the core of his research. This radical visual shift consisted in bright, hyper-saturated landscapes and cityscapes devoid of human presence—a reference to Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical spaces he greatly admired. By reducing any architectural structure to its fundamental geometric solids, Salvo’s practice is also closely related to Paul Cézanne’s. Subject matter is carved solely out of light, colour and shape. An avid explorer, his work was also informed by memories of his Sicily and a number of seminal trips to Greece, former Yugoslavia, Turkey and other Middle-Eastern countries like Oman and Egypt.
As he gained further recognition in Europe in the early 1980s, Salvo participated in the 41st Venice Biennale in 1984 and was honoured with many institutional exhibitions in Italy and across Europe over the course of the following decades, culminating in a major retrospective at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin in 2007. After he passed away in 2015, Salvo’s idyllic paintings continued to make their way into national and international museum shows and were ultimately consecrated by a large retrospective at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome in 2021.
Exhibition from May 02 to June 03, 2023.
The other spaces (Marais and 2 bis avenue Matignon) will be closed.
The gallery
Emmanuel Perrotin founded his first gallery in 1990 at the age of twenty-one. He has worked closely with his roster of artists, some for more than twenty-five years, to help fulfill their ambitious projects. Perrotin has galleries in 7 cities (soon 8): Paris, Hong Kong, New York, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai and soon Los Angeles totaling 7,800 square meters (84,000 square feet) of exhibition space.
Today, Perrotin represents some sixty artists and seven estates hailing from more than 20 different nationalities, and also works on an occasional basis with some twenty other artists.
Gallery artists
Chiho Aoshima • Jean-Marie Appriou • Iván Argote • Daniel Arsham • Cristina BanBan • Hernan Bas • Genesis Belanger • Sophie Calle • Maurizio Cattelan • Chen Fei • Chen Ke • Johan Creten • Gabriel De La Mora • Jean-Philippe Delhomme • Wim Delvoye • Elmgreen & Dragset • Lionel Estève • Jens Fänge • Bernard Frize • Gelitin • Laurent Grasso • Zach Harris • Thilo Heinzmann • John Henderson • Leslie Hewitt • Gregor Hildebrandt • JR • Jesper Just • Izumi Kato • Bharti Kher • Klara Kristalova • Lee Bae • MADSAKI • Eddie Martinez • Barry McGee • Farhad Moshiri • Mr. • Takashi Murakami • Ni Youyu • Otani Workshop • Jean-Michel Othoniel • Park Seo-Bo • Gahee Park • Paul Pfeiffer • Paola Pivi • Gabriel Rico • Claude Rutault • Mark Ryden • Emily Mae Smith • Pierre Soulages • Josh Sperling • Tavares Strachan • Claire Tabouret • Aya Takano • Tatiana Trouvé • Xavier Veilhan • Pieter Vermeersch • XU ZHEN® Estates : Chung Chang-Sup • Ericson & Ziegler • Hans Hartung • Alain Jacquet • Yves Laloy • Georges Mathieu • Jesús Rafael Soto Projects With : Gimhongsok • Koak • Kelly Beeman • Jason Boyd Kinsella • Mathilde Denize • Nick Doyle • Elizabeth Glaessner • Kara Joslyn • Susumu Kamijo • Kim Chong-Hak • Emi Kuraya • Trevon Latin • Lee Mingwei • OB • Danielle Orchard • Matthew Ronay • Cinga Samson • Song Kun • Kathia St. Hilaire • Maria Taniguchi
Galerie sélectionnée par Salomé Monpetit et Simon Porte Jacquemus
