Salvatore Petrucino

Hi, I'm Salvatore Petrucino, aka Totò. I am a great lover of art.
In fact, I believe that art is a great means of communication, it helps to feel good and transmits great energy both to those who create it and to those who admire it. Art enriches the environments where we live making them more serene and shining, it positively influences our mood making us happier. Since I started painting more than 10 years ago, my way of looking at things has changed, I am more observant and attentive to details. For me, art is an outlet through which I express my emotions.

In my paintings inspired mostly by a surreal-metaphysical style, we find suggestive plays of shadows with which I try to express my ideas, my moods and my deepest feelings: the shadows, absolute protagonists of my works,, let dreams, emotions and daily fears emerge. Chess, another dominant theme of my works, merging with the shadows to create imaginative images that aim to communicate a pure stimulus to the sensitivity of those who '' read '' my paintings.

I am a self-taught artist.

The most important exhibitions were:
2014 Gala de l’art in Montecarlo, (representing Italy in the Principality of Monaco, enjoying considerable success.)
2015 Personal exhibition in Rome.
2015 RomArt (first edition of the International Biennial of Art and Culture)
2015 National Award Veneto city of Padua.
2016 Rome Biennale 2016.
2016 First classified painting competition at the CAOS in Terni on the occasion of the second chess Open.
2017 Maison d’art exhibition in Padua.
2018 Umbria Art Festival.
2019 Exhibition at the Velazquez Madrid award.
2019 Winner of the Ovopinto Museum competition association award in Civitella del lago.
2020 Second place in the Ovopinto museum competition in Civitella del lago.

2021 Dante Alighieri Award Florence.