The luke artist Salvatore Magno is born on the 17th of may 1959 in a little town in the south of Italy.
The luke territory (Basilicata) offers to the young boy the earliest ideas of thought and expression: nature, history, society, popular culture.
Even at an early age, a lucky epiphany reveals the beginning of his artistic career, as the artist himself explains:
“There was a small supermarket in my hometown. Every day after school, it was my habit to go watch some items for sale. I well remember that picture: there were colors on a shelf, I remained a few minutes to observe, I imagined them but I could not afford to buy them. One day after a few months, the girl in the supermarket, moved by my humble perseverance, decided to give me those colors. “
From that day on, the color reveals the young man his own voice of expression: visual art. The author tests himself with different kinds of art: sculpture, painting, graphics, photography; in painting he finds his shelter in the storm, always at the mercy of a tumultuous serenity. In 1978 he holds his first exhibition in Policoro, a small town of the luke region, in which day by day in the years to come, the reputation of the artist has born and grown. Years of change follow: life leads him to Milan in the early ’80s. Here it is recognized the ...
