Salvo and Andreas Schulze both fully embrace the tradition of painting, not trying to deconstruct or reimagine the medium, but rather using it to instigate and reinvigorate our understanding of the world through color, light, texture and mood.

Across vibrant landscapes and eccentric interiors, their unique conceptual approaches to painting evolved over decades of experimentation with color, light and form. The exhibition About Painting, with new works by Schulze alongside paintings by Salvo brings into focus their parallel trajectories and contributions to the discourse of contemporary painting. Originally conceived by the late Pasquale Leccese, who knew both artists intimately, this exhibition is dedicated to his memory.

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
L’Etna Da Taormina, 1993
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
81 x 101 x 2 cm | 32 x 39 3/4 x 7/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
L’Etna Da Taormina, 1993
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
81 x 101 x 2 cm | 32 x 39 3/4 x 7/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
L’Etna Da Taormina, 1993
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm
81 x 101 x 2 cm | 32 x 39 3/4 x 7/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
L’Etna Da Taormina, 1993 (detail)

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L’Etna Da Taormina, 1993

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Salvo (1947–2015), born Salvatore Mangione, came of age as an artist in Turin in the 1960s, home to the vibrant avant-garde scene that birthed the Arte Povera movement. He was close with Alighiero Boetti and moved in circles alongside Mario Merz, Guiseppe Penone and Gilberto Zorio, developing his own conceptual practice often with text at its basis. Despite receiving recognition for this work, in 1973 Salvo made a radical departure and embraced oil painting in a style that looked to traditional art histories from Giotto and Botticelli to Italian Futurism and Surrealism.

Using bright, contrasting colors that reveal their artifice, Salvo managed to infuse his landscapes and cityscapes with resplendent light effects that seem true to life, if also dreamlike and perpetually still, like in L’Etna Da Taormina (1993).

 

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Black cloud), 2024

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Andreas Schulze (*1955, Hanover) has played a key role in German painting for over four decades. Like Salvo, he was a participant in the heady artistic dialogues around him—in Schulze’s case, Die Neuen Wilden (The New Fauves) of Cologne’s Mülheimer Freiheit group. Yet he developed his own distinctive painterly methods that balance representation and abstraction, adopting styles derived variously from Surrealism, Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism and infusing his scenes of everyday bourgeois life with humor and irony, as well as an intermittent sense of foreboding. At every turn, Schulze both celebrates and defamiliarizes his domestic interiors, urban views and lush landscapes, rendering them strange and absurd through his deft manipulations of paint and compositional space.

In Schulze’s Untitled (Black cloud) (2024), for example, flowing diagonal bands cut through the sides of the work, pouring down its surface in a nod to Abstract Expressionist painter Morris Louis’ celebrated “Unfurled” canvases. Here, Schulze plays overtly with our desire to spot figuration in even the most abstract passages, with the “black cloud” of the work’s title hanging heavily over a pale yellow horizon.

 

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Each artist, in his own way, tends to collapse foreground and background—a flattening out that sometimes, all of a sudden, expands dramatically into great physical depths.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Apamea, 2001
Oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm | 31 1/2 x 27 5/8 inches
83.7 x 73.6 x 5.5 cm | 33 x 29 x 2 1/8 inches (framed)

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Apamea, 2001
Oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm | 31 1/2 x 27 5/8 inches
83.7 x 73.6 x 5.5 cm | 33 x 29 x 2 1/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Apamea, 2001
Oil on canvas
80 x 70 cm | 31 1/2 x 27 5/8 inches
83.7 x 73.6 x 5.5 cm | 33 x 29 x 2 1/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Apamea, 2001 (detail)

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Apamea, 2001

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023
Acrylic on nettle cloth
200 x 160 cm | 78 3/4 x 63 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Two in Venice), 2023

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Ottobre, 2000
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
63.4 x 83.9 x 4 cm | 25 x 33 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Ottobre, 2000
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
63.4 x 83.9 x 4 cm | 25 x 33 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Ottobre, 2000
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
63.4 x 83.9 x 4 cm | 25 x 33 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Ottobre, 2000 (detail)

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Ottobre, 2000

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Salvo was renowned for his sumptuous light effects; together with his frequent references to seasons and times of day in his titles, his paintings invariably evoke dreamlike narratives and the passage of time.

 

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987
Acrylic on nettle cloth
180 x 210 cm | 70 7/8 x 82 3/4 inches

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987
Acrylic on nettle cloth
180 x 210 cm | 70 7/8 x 82 3/4 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987
Acrylic on nettle cloth
180 x 210 cm | 70 7/8 x 82 3/4 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Bubbles and balls), 1987

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Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
100 x 130 cm | 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches
106 x 136 x 4 cm | 41 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
100 x 130 cm | 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches
106 x 136 x 4 cm | 41 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
100 x 130 cm | 39 3/8 x 51 1/8 inches
106 x 136 x 4 cm | 41 3/4 x 53 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008 (detail)

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Mediterraneo, 2008

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“A painting is a terminus: it is an arrival (for the one who has done it) and a departure (for the one who views it).” –Salvo1

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Una gita in montagna, 2007
Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm | 19 3/4 x 27 5/8 inches
53.6 x 73.9 x 4 cm | 21 x 29 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
Una gita in montagna, 2007
Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm | 19 3/4 x 27 5/8 inches
53.6 x 73.9 x 4 cm | 21 x 29 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Una gita in montagna, 2007
Oil on canvas
50 x 70 cm | 19 3/4 x 27 5/8 inches
53.6 x 73.9 x 4 cm | 21 x 29 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Una gita in montagna, 2007 (detail)

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Una gita in montagna, 2007

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A sense of receding space is present in Salvo’s Novembre (2004): in the foreground, a quick shift from dark green on the left to a much brighter green hue on the right implies a quick recession, coupled with the large tree at the center turning the perspective onto its head with its tufts of bold yellow flowers.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Novembre, 2004
Oil on cardboard
71 x 50 cm | 28 x 19 3/4 inches
73.5 x 52.2 cm | 29 x 20 1/2 inches (framed)

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Salvo
Novembre, 2004
Oil on cardboard
71 x 50 cm | 28 x 19 3/4 inches
73.5 x 52.2 cm | 29 x 20 1/2 inches (framed)

Salvo
Novembre, 2004
Oil on cardboard
71 x 50 cm | 28 x 19 3/4 inches
73.5 x 52.2 cm | 29 x 20 1/2 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Novembre, 2004 (detail)

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Novembre, 2004

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A sense of receding space is present in Salvo’s Novembre (2004): in the foreground, a quick shift from dark green on the left to a much brighter green hue on the right implies a quick recession, coupled with the large tree at the center turning the perspective onto its head with its tufts of bold yellow flowers.

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
190 x 300 cm (2 parts) | 74 7/8 x 118 inches (2 parts)

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
190 x 300 cm (2 parts) | 74 7/8 x 118 inches (2 parts)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
190 x 300 cm (2 parts) | 74 7/8 x 118 inches (2 parts)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Concrete and clay), 2024

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Both artists revel in simple things and reduce everything down to its most concentrated form, as well according to geometrical systems all their own. In Schulze’s large-scale diptych Untitled (Concrete and clay) (2024), the artist takes this to a literal conclusion: cube-like forms emerge from a shaft on the left of the composition, trailing one after the other as if in flight across a moody, obscure setting.

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
La città, 2013
Oil on canvas
38 x 60 cm | 15 x 23 5/8 inches
41.2 x 63.2 x 4 cm | 16 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
La città, 2013
Oil on canvas
38 x 60 cm | 15 x 23 5/8 inches
41.2 x 63.2 x 4 cm | 16 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
La città, 2013
Oil on canvas
38 x 60 cm | 15 x 23 5/8 inches
41.2 x 63.2 x 4 cm | 16 1/8 x 24 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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La città, 2013 (detail)

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La città, 2013

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Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm | 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches
63.2 x 63.2 x 6 cm | 24 7/8 x 24 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm | 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches
63.2 x 63.2 x 6 cm | 24 7/8 x 24 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 cm | 23 5/8 x 23 5/8 inches
63.2 x 63.2 x 6 cm | 24 7/8 x 24 7/8 x 2 3/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Mediterraneo, 2008 (detail)

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Mediterraneo, 2008

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (At home), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 130 cm | 51 1/8 x 51 1/8 inches

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Andreas Schulze
Untitled (At home), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 130 cm | 51 1/8 x 51 1/8 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (At home), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 130 cm | 51 1/8 x 51 1/8 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (At home), 2024 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (At home), 2024 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Untitled (At home), 2024

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Untitled (At home), 2024

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Works such as Schulze’s Untitled (At home) (2024) illustrate a similar flattening and expansion of space in his work, just as they reveal one of his recurring tropes: the curtain and the stage, and the theatricality that they both imply.

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 210 cm | 51 1/8 x 82 3/4 inches

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San Frediano in Cestello, 1996
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches
42 x 32 cm | 16 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (framed)

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Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 210 cm | 51 1/8 x 82 3/4 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
130 x 210 cm | 51 1/8 x 82 3/4 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Liverwurst bread), 2024

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
San Frediano in Cestello, 1996
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches
42 x 32 cm | 16 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
San Frediano in Cestello, 1996
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 cm | 15 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches
42 x 32 cm | 16 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
San Frediano in Cestello, 1996 (detail)

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San Frediano in Cestello, 1996

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Schulze’s painterly nonchalance and his very own painterly comedy create a balancing act between representationalism and absurdity and ensure that one immediately recognizes the everyday objects he paints and at the same time sees them in a different light.

 

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches

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Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024
Acrylic on nettle cloth
80 x 60 cm | 31 1/2 x 23 5/8 inches

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024 (detail)

Andreas Schulze
Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024 (detail)

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024

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Untitled (Cabinet with curtain), 2024

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Salvo
Dicembre, 2006
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm | 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
42.2 x 52.2 x 4 cm | 16 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo
Dicembre, 2006
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm | 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
42.2 x 52.2 x 4 cm | 16 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Dicembre, 2006
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 cm | 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 inches
42.2 x 52.2 x 4 cm | 16 5/8 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Dicembre, 2006 (detail)

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Dicembre, 2006

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Together with the frequent references to locales, seasons and times of day in his titles, Salvo’s paintings invariably evoke narratives and the passage of time. And though humans are conspicuously absent in both artists’ work, they are usually implied—through Schulze’s curtains and homey objects, for example, or the domestic architectures and manicured vegetation that populate Salvo’s scenes.

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Una sera, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm | 23 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches
63 x 53 x 4 cm | 24 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Una sera, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm | 23 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches
63 x 53 x 4 cm | 24 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Una sera, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 50 cm | 23 5/8 x 19 3/4 inches
63 x 53 x 4 cm | 24 7/8 x 20 7/8 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Una sera, 1994 (detail)

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Una sera, 1994

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All installation views: Ben Westoby

 

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La città, 2010
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
62.4 x 82.3 cm | 24 5/8 x 32 3/8 inches (framed)

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Salvo’s La città (2010) also lays bare the artist’s historical precursors, specifically De Chirico, with an enigmatic city view and a palette of brown, gold, green and red echoing the Italian Surrealist master. Like Schulze, Salvo depicts scenes from everyday life—in this case, a bus moving through town at night.

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Salvo
La città, 2010
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
62.4 x 82.3 cm | 24 5/8 x 32 3/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
La città, 2010
Oil on canvas
60 x 80 cm | 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 inches
62.4 x 82.3 cm | 24 5/8 x 32 3/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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La città, 2010 (detail)

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La città, 2010

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Salvo’s La città (2010) also lays bare the artist’s historical precursors, specifically De Chirico, with an enigmatic city view and a palette of brown, gold, green and red echoing the Italian Surrealist master. Like Schulze, Salvo depicts scenes from everyday life—in this case, a bus moving through town at night.

Salvo’s ability to capture an array of light effects comes to the fore in works such as Reykjavik (2009). Contrary to his usual, almost fluorescent, tonalities associated with Sicilian light, he has moved onto the cooler, paler shades of northern lands at dawn or dusk.

 

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Reykjavik, 2009
Oil on canvas cardboard
33.5 x 49 cm | 13 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches
35.9 x 51.1 cm | 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (framed)

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Untitled, 2009
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm | 19.7 x 19.7 inches
52 x 52 x 4 cm | 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

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Reykjavik, 2009
Oil on canvas cardboard
33.5 x 49 cm | 13 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches
35.9 x 51.1 cm | 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Reykjavik, 2009
Oil on canvas cardboard
33.5 x 49 cm | 13 1/8 x 19 1/4 inches
35.9 x 51.1 cm | 14 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

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Reykjavik, 2009 (detail)

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Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Reykjavik, 2009

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Untitled, 2009
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm | 19.7 x 19.7 inches
52 x 52 x 4 cm | 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo
Untitled, 2009
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm | 19.7 x 19.7 inches
52 x 52 x 4 cm | 20 1/2 x 20 1/2 x 1 5/8 inches (framed)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Untitled, 2009 (detail)

Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London
Salvo, Andreas Schulze – About Painting – London

Salvo
Untitled, 2009

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Sources cited:
1. Paul Maenz and Gerd De Vries, eds., Salvo: Della Pittura / On Painting / Über die Malerei, Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, 2020.