The purpose of this exhibition is to analyze the artistic production of one who can be considered one of the most significant sculptors of his generation in Italy, namely the Salento Salvatore Sava, born in 1966. The title chosen alludes, in its reference to an alterity , to the awareness he demonstrated and the effort made to identify a future for this form of plastic expression, pursuing a personal and authentic path, often lonely and counter-current.

Its path has been analyzed by scholars of great stature. Our ambition, here, is to also present works - dating from 1995 to 2021 - that have remained unpublished so far, which reveal aspects and researches of Sava that have remained somewhat or fully in the shade, but deserve penetrating attention. By now proverbial is in fact the use, in his sculptures, of iron, stone from Lecce and Trani, steel, more recently fluorescent colors, but in reality the creative universe of this original artist also includes different materials and media .

The theme of nature is always central, which however is not represented, but emblematized in pure and sometimes rough forms, lived with the passionate conscience of those who have their roots in a deeply "felt" land, that of Salento, to which Sava is wanted. remain faithful.