About

Born as Salvatore Mangione in 1947, he moved to Turin, Italy with his parents from his birthplace Leonforte in 1956 and as a young man became engaged with artistic activism that, along with political unrest, marked Italy’s North during that time. It was through these political interests that he was acquainted with several Arte Povera figures and decided to abandon his birth name for an artistic name: Salvo (meaning unscathed or holy). Salvo’s early artworks were highly conceptual, combining art-historical references including Renaissance paintings with his own image or name. This initially …