The Artist
Saverio di Spirito
born in 1963, was born in Varese into a large and noisy family from which originates his conviviality and his power of sharing which becomes a fundamental piece of his art. He approaches the artistic world as a boy, first to architecture which shows its eclecticism of order and disorder, calm and chaos in constant contrast. Man lives on words alone, it is the universal language with which he expresses himself and this is why Di Spirito makes art his verb, his word, making sure that the visual can be heard: his stroke is noisy, chaotic . Saverio chooses to make art far from the circuits and from the desire for protagonism, far from the meditation that surrounds the work but immersed in his pure research and understanding of the instinctive, emotional and primordial side. He is a material and curious artist and the curious. Experiment with two-tone, black and white, light and shadow, what transpires and remains hidden. Thus was born his series "Chairs", the canvas lies on the ground, white is covered with white, paint and glue create a waterproof layer then pour the black color which will impregnate the canvas while the white part remains visible, as for a principle of subtraction, light wins over dark.
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If the artist is the one who sees art in everything and transforms everything, then Di Spirito is the most striking example. In the early 90s he enters the trade fair world and with him he immerses himself in graphics and advertising which he incorporates into his art. The Fair is a great machine that creates and destroys, prints and disposes of in a short time and here the artist enters the scene who, with the technique of Collage and Décollage, gives a second life to leftover materials. His is a Leftover Art, sometimes starting from the same pictorial support, he does not always prefer the canvas, in fact he is at ease on laminations, honeycomb panels of exhibition stands, everything can become the basis of his image. He is dedicated to recycling and has that rare ability to always be able to discover new ways of using what others discard, exemplifying a concept of abundance that refers both to the stimuli that the urban environment pours against us, and to the supply industrial use of material goods and the consequent waste. Saverio Di Spirito covers reality with one hand and looks at it with a single eye to erase it and replace it with the imagination, this is how he creates: paste and tear, erase and highlight at the same time. He uses a boundless range of pictorial techniques including hand painting, the fusion between painting and erasing between gesture and removal, depth and flatness. It becomes increasingly gestural and synthetic with the use of spray paint with which he characterizes the composition with an intricate network of thin lines, black and red lines chase each other on a background of numerical blocks, repeated and increasing. Lines will show and erase, destroy and create. Evoking associations ranging from graffiti to paintings inspired by JMB and Raushenberg, the spray-painted works suggest a hide-and-seek where the imagery is simultaneously disclosed and tacit. The dripping drops emphasize the material nature of the gesture itself and underline some limitations in terms of the artist's control over his own work of art. His work also questions established artistic paradigms, starting from the idea that works of art do not necessarily have to possess a meaning, the use of photography, printing, semiotics and computerized processing create different, multifaceted and controversial. His paintings can therefore be defined as much by what they are not and what they hold as by what they are, a reductive action to fill his composition.
born in 1963, was born in Varese into a large and noisy family from which originates his conviviality and his power of sharing which becomes a fundamental piece of his art. He approaches the artistic world as a boy, first to architecture which shows its eclecticism of order and disorder, calm and chaos in constant contrast. Man lives on words alone, it is the universal language with which he expresses himself and this is why Di Spirito makes art his verb, his word, making sure that the visual can be heard: his stroke is noisy, chaotic . Saverio chooses to make art far from the circuits and from the desire for protagonism, far from the meditation that surrounds the work but immersed in his pure research and understanding of the instinctive, emotional and primordial side. He is a material and curious artist and the curious. Experiment with two-tone, black and white, light and shadow, what transpires and remains hidden. Thus was born his series "Chairs", the canvas lies on the ground, white is covered with white, paint and glue create a waterproof layer then pour the black color which will impregnate the canvas while the white part remains visible, as for a principle of subtraction, light wins over darkness. If the artist is the one who sees art in everything and transforms everything, then Di Spirito is the most striking example. In the early 90s he enters the trade fair world and with him he immerses himself in graphics and advertising which he incorporates into his art. The Fair is a great machine that creates and destroys, prints and disposes of in a short time and here the artist enters the scene who, with the technique of Collage and Décollage, gives a second life to leftover materials. His is a Leftover Art, sometimes starting from the same pictorial support, he does not always prefer the canvas, in fact he is at ease on laminations, honeycomb panels of exhibition stands, everything can become the basis of his image. He is dedicated to recycling and has that rare ability to always be able to discover new ways of using what others discard, exemplifying a concept of abundance that refers both to the stimuli that the urban environment pours against us, and to the supply industrial use of material goods and the consequent waste. Saverio Di Spirito covers reality with one hand and looks at it with a single eye to erase it and replace it with the imagination, this is how he creates: paste and tear, erase and highlight at the same time. He uses a boundless range of pictorial techniques including hand painting, the fusion between painting and erasing between gesture and removal, depth and flatness. It becomes increasingly gestural and synthetic with the use of spray paint with which he characterizes the composition with an intricate network of thin lines, black and red lines chase each other on a background of numerical blocks, repeated and increasing. Lines will show and erase, destroy and create. Evoking associations ranging from graffiti to paintings inspired by JMB and Raushenberg, the spray-painted works suggest a hide-and-seek where the imagery is simultaneously disclosed and tacit. The dripping drops emphasize the material nature of the gesture itself and underline some limitations in terms of the artist's control over his own work of art. His work also questions established artistic paradigms, starting from the idea that works of art do not necessarily have to possess a meaning, the use of photography, printing, semiotics and computerized processing create different, multifaceted and controversial. His paintings can therefore be defined as much by what they are not and what they hold as by what they are, a reductive action to fill his composition.