Andrea Salvino

Andrea Salvino (Rome, 1969). Lives and works in Berlin and Rome.

He attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, graduating in 1993. Salvino’s artistic research is closely connected to history and draws inspiration from political, social and film iconography basically from the Italian and European 20th century to the present day. His work can be understood as a page of unofficial history written in images through anecdotes and details taken from figurative documents. The subjects that Salvino brings to life in the drawn papers and painted canvases are historical photograms identified from photographs, old postcards, books, film prints and selected as particularly significant iconographic motifs capable of describing the era from which they derive and the culture of reference.

Political events, war, pronography, eroticism, costume and cinemas follow one another in Salvino’s drawings as if they were fragments of a past reality capable of providing and returning to the viewer a “piece” of identity. In fact, Salvino, without pretending to take political or ideological positions, reveals with his works the importance and power of images as elements that induce one to remember, to evoke a historical or other fact. Finally, to recognize a world of belonging that goes beyond all taboos. The subjects are treated by the artist with almost obsessive familiarity, through a fast and marked stroke capable of conveying vigor and feeding the viewer’s imagination.