Giuseppe Salvatori, Elegia Attica

Achille's weapons, Virgilio, Esperia, Pandora, Olimpia, Berenice, are just some of the elliptical and symbolic reinterpretations of Giuseppe Salvatori, in the exhibition that has just ended in the La Nuova Pesa gallery in Rome.

Photos from http://www.nuovapesa.it/esposizioni/elegia-attica/

"La Nuova Pesa" gallery in the heart of the historic center of Rome hosts Elegia Attica exhibition by Giuseppe Salvatori, a Roman painter active in the field of figurative painting from the 70s and 80s till today. Passionate about Metaphysics, he reinterprets the Italian art of the 1900s in a contemporary and absolutely personal key, developing a research and an expressive form that manifests itself in his wooden roundels painted in soft and elegant colors. Rounds that the artist himself chooses personally, rounds whose wood, with the flames that do not burn, provokes suggestions that strike the painter and whoever observes his art like lightning.

Salvatori has already been the protagonist of important exhibitions such as Nuovi-Nuovi by Renato Barilli in Bologna in Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna and Italiana: la nuova immagine by Achille Bonito Oliva in the Loggetta Lombardesca in Ferrara; but it was with his presence at the 1990 Venice Biennale that he began to occupy an important place in the Italian and international art scene.

At the end of the trilogy conceived in 2018 with Xanthus, the river of the Iliad into which Achilles threw the bodies of a thousand enemies, developed with Perseidi, the 153 black roses for the fallen of Virgil's Aeneid, and now finished with Elegia Attica; Salvatori exhibits the theme of art and myth, subjects rooted in history such as the format on which they are developed, the Renaissance tondoes and the shields of epic battles. The references to classicism are endless, but they do not completely hide the personal suggestions of the artist himself that emerge powerfully in shades of gold, blue, orange and beige.

Salvatori talks about his most intimate reality through a reflection on history and time, a personal reality in which, however, the observer can retrace a trace of himself.

The art of this artist combines the past and the present, the ancient and the modern world in perfect harmony with a painting that is inextricably linked to nature and the animal world in an almost liberty style. Giuseppe Salvatori's painting becomes a matter of life or death, like the destinies of the great heroes hidden behind his works.