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Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian
Surface 141
In my country
The Red Girl (Head of a Red Haired Woman)
Abstraction with Brown Burlap (Sacco)
Orange Car Crash (5 Deaths 11 Times in Orange) (Orange Disaster)
Still life
San Martino and the poor man
A mummified culture
Coat stand (from Naples)
Terrible animal
Sill for one color (Sill for one turquoise)
Living Sculpture
Without title
Archeology
Grafting
The man who broke the statue of God
Thumb print
Archeology
The Four III
Compassion
MDLXIV
Portrait Relief of Claude Pascal
Spots
Era
Drums, bells and cowbells
House
Be breathe
Archeology
DadAndroginErmete
Without title
Prepare yourself for a cosmic-astronomical masterpiece
Without title
Night lookout
From Olympus
The philosophical canvas
Frescoes
Roll of corrugated cardboard
Black-green interference
Iris
The pier (The little train)
Portrait of a lady
Aracne
Study for the death of Leonidas at Thermopylae
Asphyxiation! (left side)
The Siren (Green Abyss)
Female Nude (Ginia) (Ginia with head resting on her arm)
Self-portrait with the feather of jay
Urban landscape
Composition T. 50 - 5
Portrait of Ercole Levi
Painting no. XLV
Marina
Portrait of Annetta Levi (Figure)
Portrait of a lady
Justinian

San Martino and the poor man

Salvatore Mangione, detto Salvo

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GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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Always with a strongly self-celebratory intent, Salvo aspires, in the early seventies, to compete with the great masters of painting, obviously on the basis of a peer comparison. (...) Tracing the evolution of painting over the last seven centuries, by Simone Martini in Cézanne, passing through Stephan Lochner, Cranach, Rembradt and Boucher, Salvo's canvas ideally closed the path as a standard bearer of twentieth-century painting. Typical of that turn of years, even in this canvas the artist plays with the quotation of tradition, loading the iconography, now historicized, with a studied realization awkwardness in an ironic sense, in a sort of artistic tampering with aesthetic values assimilated to the history of style and presented in a renewed form. The model is the San Martino divides the cloak with a beggar by El Greco, ostentatiously counterfeited for the recontextualized scene and the replacement of the dark tones of the original with luminous tones and fragrant colors, in a reinterpretation that smacks of almost outrageous re-appropriation of a well-known piece of history of Western figurative culture. The conceptual approach of the painting, starting from the rejection of a consolidated creative practice, is further underlined by the replacement of the face of San Martino with that of the painter's wife dressed in the old fashioned way, in a work that intercepts at the same time ancient painting, pre-Raphaelites, pop art and conceptual art. Seven centuries of art history in fact.
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Title: San Martino and the poor man

Author: Salvatore Mangione, detto Salvo

Date: 1973

Technique: Oil and paper applied on canvas

Displayed in: GAM - Gallery of Modern Art, Turin

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