Turin, the great posthumous exhibition dedicated to Salvo

From November 1, 2024, to May 25, 2025, the Turin museum spaces of Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin will present Arriving in Time, the largest posthumous exhibition dedicated to the artist Salvo (Leonforte, 1947 - Turin, 2015), curated by Sarah Cosulich and Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti. The exhibition will offer a path through Salvo’s work, highlighting how his painting has always been in continuity with his early conceptual research. Born in Sicily, Salvo has lived in Turin since 1956, where he first approachedArte Povera and the languages of conceptual art, and then devoted himself since 1973 only to painting. The retrospective exhibition dedicated to him will highlight how Salvo’s painting is not in opposition to his early conceptual period, but absorbs its characteristics and intentions, fitting coherently into his artistic path.

Produced in collaboration with the Salvo Archive, the exhibition will focus on some of the fundamental motifs of the artist’s research: the concept of repetition in the exploration of recurring motifs, understood both as a pictorial technique and as a conceptual urgency; the reflection on painting as language and language as art; and the relationship between art history and a look at everyday life. Salvo, one of the pioneering artists of the second half of the Italian twentieth century, positioned himself independently of currents and trends, always maintaining a focus on the subjects and languages of art history. The project will also occupy a room on the second floor of the museum, in an ambitious exhibition project that will invest the entire Pinacoteca. The exhibition will be accompanied by a dedicated publication designed to open the critical reading of Salvo’s work to an international audience.

Salvo

Notes on the artist

Born in 1947 in Leonforte in the province of Enna (Sicily), Salvo moved in 1956 to Turin where in an early period he matured a conceptual research, thanks to contacts with figures working within Arte Povera and artists such as Sol LeWitt, Robert Barry and Joseph Kosuth. 1973 is the year of his return to painting, a painting already practiced in his early formative years and which, at the beginning of the 1970s, was to be considered as an unconventional, out-of-time choice. The central themes of his research such as the relationship with tradition and the past and the revisiting of art history are more solidly expressed in this second moment that will last until 2015. His works have been shown in numerous solo exhibitions in institutions such as: Museum Folkwang, Essen and Mannheimer Kunstverein, 1977; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, 1983; Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam and Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nîmes, 1988; Villa delle Rose, Bologna, 1998; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, 2002; Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, 2007; Museo d’Arte della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 2017; and MACRO, Rome, 2021.

Turin, the great posthumous exhibition dedicated to Salvo

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