Salvatore Emblema - Untitled

The work draws on an Informal aesthetic language. The devastation wrought by World War II left a profound mark on Western civilization, which in the visual arts also resulted in an inability to communicate. For some artists, this challenge led to a complete rejection of any visual language, resulting in the birth of Informal Art. The various Informal movements are certainly connected to American Abstract Expressionism, especially with regard to the gestural component, but they go further in their rejection of any figurative element, even geometric. Their research focuses instead on the material from which their works are composed.

Beginning in the 1960s, artistic languages, not only in Italy, led to the abandonment of traditional supports such as canvas for painting or materials for sculpting. Artists' desire was to make a clean sweep and start from scratch with a new conception of artistic practice, open to new materials that could incorporate different perceptual stimuli (such as tactile sensation) and have a more direct connection with reality. Hence the use of discarded materials, or those derived from technology, assembled into compositions and installations. This work clearly demonstrates the different components of the artistic language developed by Salvatore Emblema. Fundamental to this artist is his use of a support like raw canvas, a significant element of mechanical production, which leads to the rejection of traditional support in favor of an object evocative of contemporary society. On the support, the artist applies further pieces of even rougher fabric in a geometric arrangement, thus demonstrating his interest in elevating the simple object, the waste, to a work of art. Finally, the third element is superimposed, the material, the coloured earth which gesturally reconfigures the canvas and gives it a new poetics which can be traced back to the aesthetics of the informal.

Salvatore Emblema (1929-2006). He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. His artistic research was influenced by Spatialism, in the intervention of reality into the artwork and the use of raw materials such as clay and canvas. His experience in the United States was crucial, adding two other essential components to his style: Pollock's freedom of creative gestures and Rothko's balance and chromatic fades.

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