Salvatore Privitera

I began an artistic journey with the master Cesare Circonciso, under whose guidance I deepened the art of painting and then continued in the search for a personal stylistic code capable of expressing and transferring the most spontaneous and sometimes instinctive forms of my emotions onto canvas. I intend to create a work that can be the subject of dialogue and comparison, but also of absorbed and intense interest, reflection and contemplation. Franco Califano wrote in a well-known song: “I painted my soul on anonymous canvas” Art is the essential expression of oneself. A landscape, as well as an object or the representation of shapes that are not necessarily definable, become the translation of an extemporaneous feeling, a prolonged state of mind or a perennial existential condition. The journey that leads to creation keeps the artist suspended between the real and the intangible. Mixing colors upon colors and using few elements on a visual level helps to convey a pure, intimate and profound message: a manifesto of one’s spirituality. This finished and achieved experience with the Soul is for me the work of art. Salvo’s art stands out for its ability to reduce a complex image to its essence, without ever slipping into the banality of excessive simplification. His pursuit of essentiality is not merely about simplifying, but rather a process of revelation, where what remains is not just a residue but the very core of the work. Simplicity thus becomes the means through which the artist’s message reaches the viewer with strength and clarity, freed from the superfluous. In this act of subtraction, Salvo manages to maintain the communicative power of his works, making each element visible not only as a sign but as a vehicle for direct and immediate emotions.