An exponent of the return to figurative painting at the end of the seventies, in 1980 he participated in two public exhibitions examining the latest trends in contemporary Italian art: at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna with the Nuovi-Nuovi<\/em> by Renato Barilli and at the Loggetta Lombardesca in Ravenna with Italiana: the new image<\/em> by Achille Bonito Oliva. Having become one of the protagonists of the “New Figuration” in the 1980s, Salvatori seeks a formal synthesis where figures and abstractions merge, creating the sensation of a work on language of a poetic nature.<\/p>\n In his expressive research he revisits Italian art and architecture of the 20th century, especially Metaphysics. Through the use of pastel on canvas, born from a passionate reinterpretation of Italian art of the first forty years of the twentieth century, Salvatori creates paintings of architecture, still life and landscape, which underlie a poetics based on the opposition nature-culture and on the close relationship with the literary world, of which the artist shares projects and suggestions. Between 1987 and 1988 he switched to the tempera technique, which allowed him to create larger works, such as those presented at the Venice Biennale in 1990. His research proceeded in that formal synthesis between figure and abstraction, which was perfected through all the works that will follow: here reality does not enter art through a purely mimetic process, but is recognized and invested with new affects through a skilful, even existential, elaboration.<\/p>\n Giuseppe Salvatori has exhibited in many of the most important Italian research galleries, including La Salita di G.T. Liverani in Rome and the Massimo Minini gallery in Brescia.
\nIn recent years the artist has deepened his research into subjects linked to myth and literature, in exhibitions such as Diomira<\/em>, at the Marchetti gallery in 2006, or Angel with peasants around him by the poet W. Stevens,<\/em> at the Casa delle Letterature in Rome in 2008, and again, in recent years, Xanthus from Homer’s Iliad<\/em>, Galleria La Nuova Pesa, Rome, 2018 and the Virgilian Perseids <\/em>at the De Crescenzo Gallery & Viesti, Rome, 2018: “classic” and paradigmatic subjects, linked to the great cultural tradition of the West, but transfigured, thanks to a refined lyrical elaboration, into witnesses of feelings and fears, landscapes and visions of what we recognize as places of life.<\/p>\n<\/div>