Salvatore Emblema - Untitled

Beginning in the 1960s, artistic languages ​​led, not only in Italy, to the abandonment of traditional media such as canvas for painting or materials for sculpting. Artists' desire was to make a clean sweep and start from scratch with a new conception of artistic practice, open to new materials that could incorporate different perceptual stimuli (such as tactile sensation) and have a more direct connection with reality. Hence the use of discarded materials, or those derived from the world of technology, assembled into compositions and installations.

This work clearly demonstrates the different components of Salvatore Emblema's artistic language. On the one hand, the use of a support like raw canvas, a significant element of mechanical production, leads to the rejection of traditional media in favor of an object evocative of contemporary society. On top of the support, the artist applies two additional pieces of even rawer fabric, thus demonstrating his interest in elevating the simple object, the waste, to a work of art. Finally, a third element is added: the material, the colored earth, which gestural reshapes the canvas and imbues it with a new poetics that can be traced back to the aesthetics of Informal Art.

Salvatore Emblema (1929-2006). He trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. His artistic research was influenced by Spatialism, in the intervention of reality into the artwork and the use of raw materials such as clay and canvas. His experience in the United States was crucial, adding two other essential components to his style: Pollock's freedom of creative gestures and Rothko's balance and chromatic fades.

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