Paolo Salvador

Introduction

“SALVADOR’S PROCESS IS INSTINCTIVE. YET HE IS NONETHELESS METHODICAL AND EVEN TRADITIONAL. HE CONCEIVES HIS PAINTINGS IN WRITING, WORKING ON GROUPS OF PAINTINGS CONCURRENTLY. HE EXPERIMENTS WITH FIGURATIVE POSE AND GESTURE IN LIFE DRAWING CLASSES. THESE INITIAL DRAWINGS ARE DEVELOPED INTO COMPOSITION AND THEN HE APPROACHES A CANVAS.”

- FRANCESCA GAVIN - INDEPENDENT, 2022

Paolo Salvador (b. 1990 in Lima, Peru) lives and works in Berlin. Salvador’s paintings assemble a distinct cosmovision. Drawing on mythic imagery, his paintings lend contemporary reflection to ancient subjects. With loose brush strokes and saturated colors, Salvador’s practice is evocative of biography, both personal and national. Educated in the West, his paintings offer a proximate view of his Peruvian identity, but from a distance. The vivid environments he paints are externalizations of personal and allegorical narratives, as these figurative paintings reflect on various aspects of the human condition.

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