Salvatore Starace lives in Vico Equense.
Attracted since he was young by the visual arts, preferring Dadaism and Futurism, he practices photography, frequenting artist friends, painters and sculptors. As an adult he understood that he possessed expressive abilities, starting to paint by inserting collages into his works.
Salvatore Starace’s research into colour and signs appropriates, in two-dimensional form, an architectural element of his territory, the railing of the Seiano bridge , which he cites in his works by inserting it between coloured newspaper clippings or connecting it to parts of painted subjects.
Gradually the main element, which also constituted a perspective on the world, is reduced to the synthesis of the central part of the railing, around which other stories coagulate. The synthesis reaches its peak and the surfaces are completely covered with this element; the next phase is the glazing, almost to cover the sign.
The current pictorial expression arises from the need to no longer represent reportages, but to re-signify the wedges, from papery to pictorial, seeking formal and compositional balances, maintaining spontaneity in the execution that arises from an anguish or a frenzy, recognized in the bright colors even in dark backgrounds, such as to appear as visions and not points of view. Expressing what is grasped from the artistic perceptive reality.
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