Remo Salvadori

Remo Salvadori (Cerreto Guidi, 1947).
What distinguishes him from other contemporary artists is that he is among the first of his generation to take on the responsibility and weight of the history and tradition that mark his environmental and cultural context, in which artistic action and his own way of being an artist are developed and defined. Beginning in the early 1970s, he chose to use the photographic medium (not without making use of common objects as well) to reinterpret philosophical concepts and archetypal or myth-related figures. His creations are the vehicle and outcome of a constant attention to what surrounds him and to what he inwardly verifies to be in close relationship with reality. External and internal to one’s own sensibility are combined in the experience of the artwork. Attention paid to time and space in the work, as well as to one’s being, is intertwined with reflections on color, form, materials, modes of representation and observation.

Salvadori has exhibited in major Italian and European museums including solo shows at Le Magasin, Centre National d’Arte Contemporain, Grenoble in 1991, at the Center for Contemporary Art, Luigi Pecci, Prato in 1997, and most recently at Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Neuss, 2018. Important international exhibitions in recent decades where he has been among the protagonists are the XL, XLII and XLV Venice Art Biennale in 1982, 1986 and 1993, and Documenta VII and IX, Kassel in 1982 and 1992. Significant aspects of his practice are expressed in the volumes: L’attenzione divisa, edizioni Pieroni, Rome 1987; L’ottava, edizioni Locus Solus, Genoa 1989; Il Cantiere Remo Salvadori, edizioni Tra Art, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 2004; L’osservatore non l’oggetto osservato, edizioni Charta, Milan 2005; Remo Salvadori, Quaderni Stein, Electa editore, 2010; Isola, Isole, Insulae, Johann e Levi Editori, Monza 2012; L’acqua è maestra, 24 Ore Cultura, Milan 2016 and Remo Salvadori, a monograph published by Skira in 2025. In 2019, he was awarded the President of the Republic Prize for Sculpture. Recently-created permanent works are Germoglio, a monumental sculpture created for MACCA, Peccioli in 2023/2024 and Alveare at the Orto Giardino del Convento della Chiesa del Santissimo Redentore, Venice, commissioned by the Venice Gardens Foundation, 2024.