Salvatore Fiume - Happy Island

In the history of art, a clear distinction can often be made between figurative and abstract stylistic movements. However, when an artist's goal is to depict an object that resonates with phenomenal reality but is simultaneously charged with hidden and symbolic meaning, this boundary can become blurred. Symbolism and Expressionism are emblematic stylistic movements in their conceptual interpretation of reality, with an iconic rendering of images and a symbolic interpretation in the use of color. In Salvatore Fiume's pictorial production, abstract and figurative blend almost seamlessly. In this type of serigraph, in particular, the Sicilian artist blends figurative citation with a notable formal abstraction.

Stylistically, in this graphic work, Salvatore Fiume blends his signature Expressionist synthesis with remarkable formal research. Indeed, the construction of the work's space, thanks to the emphasis placed on the subjects' volumes, is delineated in an almost geometric manner, like a rationalist conglomeration of regular shapes. The distinctive feature is that all this is transfigured into the expressionistic roughness of Salvatore Fiume's language. His deliberately coarse line sketches out the figures, relegating them to a raw state that is synonymous with synthesis and, therefore, expressiveness. Salvatore Fiume's style, therefore, remains alive and vibrant, as in his sensual female characters, and is elegantly synthetic, even in the delineation of clear-cut volumes.

Salvatore Fiume was born in 1915 in Comiso and died in Milan in 1997. In addition to being a painter and sculptor, he was also an architect. His career as a painter focused on a reinterpretation of classicism, particularly Renaissance painting and Piero della Francesca. Later, thanks to his success, he traveled extensively around the world, drawing inspiration from exotic folklore, which he rendered in an expressionist manner.

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