Salvatore Sferrazza

Salvatore Sferrazza was born in Caltanissetta, Italy, in 1964.In his pictures he uses traditional painting techniques, such as oil on canvas and crayons.Salvatore Sferrazzas paintings have an inward strength. Not in the sense - often overused - of the work of art which reveals inner moods, or which is pervaded with the artists personal experience: it is a given that artists express themselves through their art.The situation is more complicated, and the three new works showed in this exhibition are an example of this. They are a new occasion of exploring Sferrazzas visual sensibility; coherently with his continue research in tones, colours and atmospheres. His oils on canvas are a successions of superimpositions of long-thought, revised and modified layers. Every painting is an intense experience, the result of a constant meditation on technique and subject matter.This begets a figurative style pervaded by mysterious fade-outs indicative of this experience and inquisitive of mans condition. This happens through an allusion to an inner dimension which opens up to the viewer own self. The artists eye sharply and yet respectfully reads faces, avoiding any sentimentality. The painted subjects speak with pure poetry which never beco...

Critics

With a very diluted oil, Salvatore Sferrazza, can create suggestions that move us. From a car in heavily falling rain, veiling his eyes, spilling onto the windscreen and amplifying the headlights and the melancholic brightness, Salvatore Sferrazza observes a world which is no longer concealed. Or rather, this world is confused, is almost dissolved, melted.
But because of this no longer has the means to pretend to be as it is not. The silhouette of a man who is
moving away from us, evanescent but present in the vibrant red of his umbrella, makes us a bit sad : because we understand that this man is asking questions to which perhaps, in the world, he will find no answer.
The author speaks in a delicate and sensitive tone and tells us that “The Red Umbrella” is a autobiographical work; it tells us that the world is increasingly blurred, and that that man is choosing whether to dive into the depersonalized chaos of city life to which the street wet and shiny with rain is leading him , or not . But he does not want to impose his artist's view at all costs; we understand that he is very poetic, almost coy, however, in the attempt to protect himself. He lets his paintings, which ressemble him, speak...

1991 Palazzo Moncada Bauffremont, Caltanissetta.
1996 Circolo Agorà, Pisa.
2002 Boato Galleria d’Arte, Venezia.
2004 “Le Stanze di Eros”, Galleria Comunale Piombino, Livorno.
2004 Arte Fiera “Immagina”, Reggio Emilia.
2005 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea , Firenze.
2006 Jelmoni Galleria d’Arte, Piacenza.
2006 “ARTE EXPO”, Padova.
2007 La Pergola Art Gallery, Firenze.
2008 ARTE EXPO “Lineart”, Gent.
2008 Opera Gallery, Budapest.
2008 EUART (collettiva di artisti italiani):
- Gallery Anthony Curtis, Boston;
- Federal Reserve Building, Boston;
- Micromuseum, New York.
2009 EUART (collettiva di artisti italiani): Italian Expo’, Chicago.
2009 Biennale Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Firenze.
2010 “ARTE EXPO”, Genova.
2010 The Brick Lane Gallery, London.
2011 ‘Artistinmostra’ Fiera di Parma
2012 Kiron Espace – Parigi (collettiva di artisti italiani)
2013 “ARTE EXPO”, GENOVA.
2014 Personale di pittura al Palazzo Moncada Bauffremont di Caltanissetta.
2015 ARTE EXPO’ - NEW YORK - EUART.

2015 II Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo Donostiartean
GALLERIA GAUDI’ – Madrid

2016 ‘Acqua, Viaggio fra paesaggi e sentime...