Paolo Salvati, contemporary artist, leaves us

Paolo Salvati, a contemporary artist whom we here on Finestre sull’Arte had the pleasure of interviewing last year, has left us: at this link is the post with the interesting interview and the painter’s thoughts on art. Paolo Salvati passed away last June 24, and the funeral, which was held privately, took place on June 26, in Rome, in the basilica of Santa Maria in Monte Santo in Piazza del Popolo, the temple that is traditionally known to be the church of artists in the capital. Only today, however, did the family want to spread the news of the passing.

Paolo Salvati, Jesus, 1980

We remember Paolo Salvati by retracing the milestones of his artistic career with a critical piece written by Andrea De Liberis in January 2010.

"Each of his canvases ignited and at the same time diffused with cerebral imagination announces a dialogue as new as it is expected by the new demands, already accustomed to formalism of the academic school.

These words were composed in Rome in July 1973 by General Mariano Venturini, collector, Critic and Art Historian. They explain in synthesis the creative genius of the Artist Paolo Salvati, an extraordinary expressive ability through the art of color, his work is always remembered as a proud lyrical redemption and so much scientific and rationalistic intrusiveness, qualities surpassed only by his humanity.

He painted important works of great lyrical intensity such as the Blue Stone painted from 1973 to 1974, the canvases of Dreams of Spring and dSummer from 1974 to 1975, the canvases Blue Trees from 1980, painted for many years a series entitled Fronde Rosse from 1980 to 1994, the Yellow Mountain in 1991, landscapes, seascapes, numerous portraits. He participated in the Plastic and Figurative Arts Exhibitions of Trinità dei Monti and Galleria Alberto Sordi formerly Galleria Colonna in Rome. He worked as a miniaturist and portrait painter in Piazza Navona in Rome from the 1970s to the 1990s, painted oil-on-board miniatures depicting Roman monuments and fantasy landscapes, and drew numerous portraits.Paolo Salvati’s works are held in important private collections and public collections. On December 13, 2005, he is institutionally recognized as a Distinguished Citizen in the Lazio Region, LR. 21/99 measure No. 1103. He masterfully paints in December 2010 a series of portraits on canvas in mixed media for labels of a production of Bottiglie dAutore entitled UNICA, a combination of strong identities that express the art of color and wine taste of our land, today still unpublished.

Numerous group, extemporaneous and solo exhibitions dedicated to his work. On October 20 and 21, 2012 the driver Andrea Palma runs in the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza during practice and in the race exhibiting a replica of a portrait painted by Salvati: a color print placed on the hood of the Ferrari F430. On December 27, 2012, at the suggestion of the Presidency of the Republic, he received the honorary distinction of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, decorated n.324601. For Salvati, art is the only thing in this world that despite being born in the human being manages through thought and the human soul to touch the threshold of the transcendent. A deeply religious artist, he finds through his painting the means by which we can approach and understand God. We cannot but accept this irrefutable principle, because behind the mystery of life, only through art is it possible to perceive the supreme creator of the nature that surrounds us. And that same nature that gave our artist the ability to mix colors and transfuse them into his works, as an immediate means of communication for all of us. The aestheticism that he transfuses us through the skillfully juxtaposed colors, the luminous technique with large brushstrokes, the gestural dexterity lets the master’s soul shine through, sustained by passion as the guiding thread of his life. Salvati is therefore an artist with a capital A who deserves to enter the great book of art history, precisely in this era of general existential crisis while remaining tied to tradition, he stands as an absolute novelty in the field of aesthetics. In his landscapes, artistic creativity is developed through the synthesis of pictorial harmonies, an expression of refined poetics that manifests itself in the explosion of colors, conveying to us that sense of serenity and osmosis with nature, a rare example in contemporary art."

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