Salvatore Pupillo - Rami

Landscape has always been a central theme in artistic research, both as a setting, as a backdrop, and as a subject itself. The naturalistic depiction of landscape has been a major aspiration for artists of every era. Each historical period has offered its own interpretation of landscape, contributing to the evolution of its depiction: first with an exploration of space, through Brunelleschi's perspective in the early Renaissance; then with atmospheric rendering in the sixteenth century; and finally with the depiction of every single vibration of light on objects in Impressionism. His exploration of landscape led the painter Salvatore Pupillo to develop a highly original language, somewhere between Expressionism and Informalism.

Artist Salvatore Pupillo's perception and representation of reality is conceived through a process of reduction and abstraction of sensory data, pushed to the most extreme consequences. We could therefore speak of an expressionist landscape, given this remarkable operation of synthesis that leads the artist to seek the truest and most profound essence of nature, freeing it from all descriptive frills and contingent data. But Salvatore Pupillo's minimalism is pushed to a point of no return: he almost obliterates reality, reducing objects to mere signs traced in a gray, decontextualized space. The use of marks and pictorial gestures, therefore, lead Pupillo's work toward an informal aesthetic, placing his pictorial style on a fascinating boundary between nature and conceptualism.

Pupillo was born in Rome, where he lives and works, in 1956. He is an exponent of the generation of Italian painting that emerged in the 1980s. A book by MaXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Art - Rome, places him among the artists of the Roman cultural scene of the last 30 years. His activity began in 1985 with an exhibition at Villa Corsini in Rome. In 1992, he exhibited "Proposte" at the Banchi Nuovi gallery in Rome. His work draws on the informal movement of the 1940s and 1950s, including Fautrier, Wols, and Vasco Bendini. He has participated in numerous exhibitions abroad: the Cologne Art Fair with the Framart Gallery in Naples, "Misure unici" at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lyon, "Il progetto dell'essenza" at various Italian Cultural Institutes, and "L'immagine interiore" in Rabat, Tunis, Cairo, Beirut, Asmara, and Lisbon (1998).

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