Fiume Salvatore

Sicilian from 1915, Savior River he is a painter, sculptor, architect, writer and set designer. At sixteen he entered the Royal Institute of Book Art of Urbino where he studied the techniques of press. Having moved to Milan, he met artists and intellectuals such as Quasimodo, Buzz yourself, Careers with whom he becomes friends. He was the art director of an Olivetti magazine but established himself as a painter only when he moved near Como to a nineteenth-century spinning mill which became his studio and home. The first exhibition is in Milan at Borromini Gallery, where the Islands of statues e City of statues they received great critical interest and earned them an invitation to the Venice Biennale and a cover of Life. In 1950 the architect Gio Ponti he commissioned a huge painting (48 x 3 metres) for the first-class hall of the transatlantic Andrea Doria. Fiume creates a canvas with an imaginary Renaissance city full of Italian masterpieces from the 15th and 16th centuries. In 1956 the Andrea Doria sank off the coast of Nantucket. Officially debuts as sculptor only in '94 with an exhibition at Artesanterasmo Gallery from Milan. His sculptures are in stone, bronze, resin, wood and ceramic, some of which are large such as the bronze statue al European Parliament in Strasbourg. He also works as a set designer for Covent Garden in London, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Teatro Massimo in Palermo. He also writes numerous literary works, novels, short stories, plays and poetry collections. The University of Palermo awarded him an honorary degree Modern letters. His works are present in the most important museums in the world.