SLENDERS: HOMAGE TO SALVO Painting

The idea of this painting came from a round little hill, with the crest densely crenellated of maritime pines, talls and thins, that I saw scrolling behind the window of the train, crossing a village of the Barcelona’s suburbs, called Moncada Reixac. To the pines I mentally juxtaposed giraffes, due to the evident physiognomical reason. It must also be said that zoology defines giraffes as “Giraffa Camelopardalis”: that is to say a Leopard-Skin Camel. For which, considering my track record, my job becomes undoubtedly easier. Finally there’s the fact I always join maritime pines with Salvo’s painting. Le jeux sont faits. Rien ne va plus. Salvatore Mangione (Salvo is the stage name) was nine years old, when he got to Turin with his parents, from their native Sicily. Instead of go to work at the FIAT, he decided to be artist. So suddenly he found himself in the middle of the Arte Povera, the protests of the 68th, the Conceptual Art and the aesthetical elucubrations of Maurizio Calvesi and Achille Bonito Oliva. However he never forgot the Mediterraneans landscapes of his childhood. The blue sky, sprinkled with white clouds, in the background of the sea. The golden fields and the soft green hills. The palm trees, the great cactus and the tall maritime pines. The bell tower of a rural church and the little plastered farmers houses. He painted endlessly those arboreal landscapes, by a chromatism full of fresh naivety and warm light, remembrance of the dream vision of the metaphysical squares of Giorgio De Chirico. But beyond his natural adhesion to the “floating” mood of the metaphysical vision, Salvo has been able to transmit to the so-called Landscape Painting the magical and playful image of a Nature revisited with the Pop Art language of childish comics. I’ll always be grateful to him. This work is dedicated to his memory and to his poetry that, from day one, I always felt very close to me.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:51.2 W x 31.5 H x 0.1 D in

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