Salvatore Garau (Italy, 1953). "Centrale idroelectrica", Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, titled and located on the back.

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SALVATORE GARAU (Italy, 1953). "Centrale idroelectrica", Acrylic on canvas. Signed, dated, titled and located on the back. Size: 139 x 139 cm. In this work the author uses an abstract language, based on irregular geometry, with an organic character both in its outline and in the colours. It is an open style, whose basic characteristic is the conception of the pictorial surface as a whole, as an open field, without limits and without hierarchy. Thus, as we see here, the pictorial forms are the result of a thought-out composition and experimentation, with an image of a gestural nature, not limited to a composition, but going beyond it, indicating to the spectator that it is about forms, ideas or suggestions that go beyond the boundaries of the purely pictorial. An Italian artist born in Santa Giusta (Sardinia), Salvatore Garau trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, graduating in 1974. After an initial period devoted to music, he focused his career on visual art. He held his first solo exhibition in 1984, and since then has shown his work in various European cities. In 2003 he participated in the Venice Biennale and held an exhibition at the European Parliament (Strasbourg). Six years later he held a major solo exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Saint-Étienne (France). He is currently represented in the Museo del Novecento and the Pablleon of Contemporary Art in Milan, the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Saint-Étienne, the MACAM in Maglione, the Museum of the Italian Embassy in Seoul, the Sala Parpalló in Valencia and other important collections.