Salvatore Provino

Salvatore provino was born in Sicily in the 1943 and he came to Rome from Bagheria when he was just 17 but the memory of his native land never deserted him.

Painting for him is also a means to remember by, to conjure up certain emotions, to recreate real sensations. It is also cognitive, an experience, a way to make a sensation indelible.

Provino's first point of reference, besides the attraction for Guttuso, are artists like Francis Bacon and Mario Sironi whose language is particularly good at expressing a down to hearth nearness with the reality of things, a suffered sense of existence in a thick, intense and painful human substance whithin the industrial rash of sixties.

A radical change in Salvatore Provino's work is impending: migration from the figurative to the abstract language later to evolve into today's more organic language. In the seventies a sientific theory backs up Provino's revolution: non-Euclidean geometry.
Provino research a new possibilities in Lobacevskij theories: " Surfaces, lines, dots as Geometry defines them, only exist in our imagination; while we work out the measures of surfaces and lines using bodies". Geometry thus becomes spherical, several postulates vanish, there are new ways. The mathematics Lucio Lombardo Radice writes: "absolute geometry is what we work out using fundamental geometrical concepts derived form the movement of ordinary solid bodies".

A new era started after his journey in Perù, now the colour is the main actor of his expressionism, matter manipulated with the hands to overcame the bidimensional surfaces of the canvas.
Images emerge as a trace, a mark or a shadow; the effect of the colour plus the colour itself; emerging forms blurred by the sea of memeory to the surface.

In the 1986 Provino is called to hold a prestigiuos a teaching post at the University of Palermo and afterwards at Naples

Starting from ninties personal exhibition at national and international level have been held in museum and public spaces, very prestigious and glamour Italian locations as Palazzo dei Diamananti of Ferrara, Palazzo delle Esposizioni of Rome, Castell'Ovo of Naples.

In 2000 is the first european artists to go to the China with an itinerant exhibition composed by several stage: Museum of Peking, Shenyang Canton, Shangai, Honk Kong e Changshu.