Larus Luridus Sculpture

Alberto Salvetti was born in 1974 , in 1998 he attended the sculpture and painting classes at the Complutense Academy of Madrid and in 2001 he graduated with the best results from the Fine Arts Academy in Venice. During his frequent travels to Buenos Aires, he met numerous masters who influenced his artistic career such as Nicolas Garcia Uriburu and Luis Benedit. During the first years of 2000 he contributed with Carolyn Carlson first in tribute to Beuys, and the Chinese sculptor masters of the Cai Guo Quiang School after, to a Biennale work in Venice. As missed forester, Alberto Salvetti has always been linked to the natural world; his artistic researches investigate the history and the medium-environment that host him: some of his works are visible at the 1 Army Museum at the Pasubio Military Memorial, at the Naturalistic Museum in Montecchio Maggiore, at the AMCPS (municipal utilities and environment office) in Vicenza and in other few Vicenza Sanitary Sites. In 2005 he won the contest: “Art societies: the roundabouts between esthetics and the promotion of the territory”, where he conceives a roundabouts as a motorway restaurant for vegetable species and autochthonous animals. In collaboration with the Sanitary District n. 6 of Vicenza, for several years he was the artistic referent of the Artelabio Project, a project opened to the town that offered theater and sculpture laboratories for psychophysics disabled people thus offering free and social integration moments for the art lovers. Over the past few years he presented unique installation as “Aironi Bianchi” Withe Herons (8 figures in plastic wrap); “Il fiume” The river (where he released alive lures into trash cans he transformed in aquariums) or Chiavenna Larus Lurido, an installation with seagulls ( 17 gulls, made of newspapers reporting news on oil spill, were covered with real oil). The performances see him more and more involved with animals that he always loved and considered as “messengers of another spirituality”.