Pinacoteca Agnelli presents the most extensive exhibition dedicated to the Italian artist Salvo (b. Leonforte 1947 – d. Turin 2015). The exhibition titled Arrivare in tempo [Arriving on time] will be open from 1 November 2024 to 30 August 2025.

The exhibition offer a path through Salvo’s oeuvre, emphasising how his approach to painting – in its recurrent thematic cycles, attention to art historical references and exploration of light – has always been in continuity with his early conceptual research.

Arrivare in tempo will be the most extensive exhibition dedicated to Salvo’s work. Born in Sicily in 1947, Salvo moved to Turin as a child in 1956 where he lived and worked for the rest of his life. After an initial phase in which he worked as a conceptual artist in close contact with the Arte Povera movement, from 1973 Salvo dedicated himself exclusively to painting, an unconventional choice for the cultural climate of the early 1970s. A maverick of the art scene, for the next forty years, Salvo pursued a unique exploration and critical reflection on the medium of painting. The exhibition will reveal how his painting was never in contrast to his initial conceptual phase, but instead absorbed the latter’s nature and intentions as part of a consistent artistic path.

Developed in close collaboration with the Archivio Salvo, the exhibition will focus on some of the fundamental motifs of his artistic exploration: the concept of repetition and probing recurring motifs both as painting technique and conceptual urgency; the reflection on painting as a language and language as art; the relationship between art history and the representation of the everyday.