Salvo's light-drenched dreamscapes shine in Seoul
Like many young Italian artists in the late 1960s, Salvo (1947-2015), born Salvatore Mangione, initially found himself drawn to Arte Povera — the country’s radical avant-garde movement that favored everyday materials and a deliberately anti-establishment approach to art-making. But a few years on, he sensed that the movement had hardened into a new kind of fashion. “In those years, in the galleries, you could find horses and stones, but not colorful paintings,” recalled Norma Mangione, the late artist’s daughter. “He thought maybe it’s more revolutionary to paint colorful places.” And so, in 1973, he found his way back to the brush and never put it down again. The saturated landscapes that followed now fill Gladstone Gallery in southern Seoul, where “Salvo, in Viaggio (Salvo Traveling)” marks the Italian master’s first solo exhibition in Korea. Organized in collaboration with Archivio Salvo, a nonprofit founded by the artist’s wife and daughter, the show gathers radiant works spanning from 1988 to 2015, the year of his death. Salvo’s landscapes, inspired by his fr
Jul 1, 2025By Park Han-sol
