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With the certificate by the Archivio Salvo, Turin, 12 September 2021. The work is recorded there under the archive number: S2001-48.

Provenance: Private collection Switzerland.

The artist Salvatore Mangiore, known as Salvo, was born in 1947 in the Sicilian village of Leonforte. He moved with his family from Catania to Turin in 1956, where he would spend most of his life. His two-month stay in Paris in 1968 inspired him to pursue an artistic career. Back in Turin, Salvo met some of the most important exponents of Arte Povera, like Alighiero Boetti, Mario Merz, Michelangelo Pistoletto and Giuseppe Penone. Influenced by these artists, he worked mainly with object art and spatial installations. From 1973 Salvo again turned away from conceptual art, and from then onwards devoted himself exclusively to traditional painting.

His paintings are situated thematically between a cultural-historical geography and landscapes of the Mediterranean. On the one hand, his paintings present his home country, the hilly landscapes of central Italy and Sicily's coast. These works are adorned with typical Mediterranean vegetation, such as narrow cypresses, tall umbrella pines, and, now and then, with the sea on the horizon, allowing an opening into the vast infinite.

A number of extended journeys inspired Salvo to record urban and architectural landscapes from different cultures; from local Roman village views, to the Greek classical period, to symbolic cultural objects from the Middle East or Asia. Subjects from mythology and archaeology are his recurring themes, as signs of the past and traces left behind by older civilisations. What is striking is that throughout his oeuvre, his paintings remain devoid of people.

At the end of the 1980s and in the course of the 1990s, Salvo travelled to Turkey, Oman, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Tibet, Nepal and Ethiopia. This was followed by several series of paintings dedicated to these places. Our present work from 2001 represents one of these memories: a silhouette of a Muslim city basking in a luminous and colourful twilight. The turquoise colour of the roofs leads us to believe that it could be a city in Turkey, where the mineral turquoise originated and was first used in ancient Islamic architecture. The warm colours of the calm sky above the roofs of the mosque elicit a strange, magical, even poetic power that invites the viewer to go on a mental journey