Salvo (1947-2015) - Capriccio

Ceramics. Ed. 2 / 9 with the dedication 'to Pierre for a happy meeting' signed Salvo
Nine numbered and signed copies of this sculpture were produced, plus several unsigned prototypes.
Salvo was an Italian modernist painter and sculptor known for his conceptual practice; later he turned to richly colored metaphysical landscapes and to urban landscapes that recall Giorgio de Chirico's works.
At the beginning of his career, Salvo was associated with the Turin Arte Povera movement of the 1960s. During that period he shared a studio with Alighiero Boetti, and the two had a reciprocal influence on each other’s practices. Salvo's textual works were inspired by the conceptual artist Joseph Kosuth. According to his instructions, the marble Salvo è vivo (1973) was transformed to reveal its counterpart Salvo è morto (Salvo is dead) at his death in 2015. He had begun painting by the mid-1970s, blending real and imaginary spaces to create simplified and hyper-saturated compositions that imply abstract concepts such as time and memory. His work has been shown at Documenta and the Venice Biennale.