Product Description
The volume consists of an extensive collection of historical images, film stills, crime scene photos, pictures of Nazi Germany, erotica, dead bodies, and various random reproductions, which alternate alongside the artist’s own drawings in ballpoint pen, pencil or charcoal. Nicht Versöhnt Oder Es Hilft Nur Gewalt Wo Gewalt Herrschtmay be regarded as the personal treasure chest of Salvino as collector. The book appears like an imprudent disclosure of the intellectual and visual connections at the basis of the artist’s creative process. In certain cases, the revelation is made evident in the side-by-side placement of the original drawings and the found images. In other instances, the web of interconnections emerges as an invisible and convoluted plot involving studies, research, biographical circumstances and free association. Through the medium of the book, Andrea Salvino turns himself into a curator, filtering his own imaginary and overcoming the solidity of the work (the painting).
