GIANCARLO SAVINO
Antonio Tabucchi wrote: "Savino's painting is a mixture of an expressionist sign that transfigures man into a sort of supernatural being.
Giancarlo Savino, like an ancient church painter, prefers large canvases that he populates with figures that are always in a prodigious balance between mimesis and abstraction, deploying the entire repertoire of possible techniques, composing glimpses of worlds and visions open to dreams, or to a reality that is true only as a reflection of the artist's mental images. The most recent Italian tradition always flows alive in him too: in his visual memory we can catch echoes of Campigli, of the transavanguardia, but also of the folklore of his native places. The color palette is expressed in the hues of dreams, or in those of melancholy and pain. The graphic sign is that of a seismograph that records the intensity of existence: he sketches silhouettes of people, intertwines lives and feelings, traces emotions and feelings as patterns that fill the figurative field as a metaphor of interior world. In terracotta sculpture, Savino becomes an archaeologist and restorer: He recomposes from inevitably incomplete fragments great mothers, who seem to have just emerged from some Magna Graecia excavation".
Giancarlo Savino was born in Naples. Painter and sculptor. He declares himself self-taught. He lived in Copenhagen and Paris. In 1986 in Naples he founded the STUDIAPERTI movement for the affirmation of the independence of art from the galleries that select artists according to market and lobby criteria. He worked in experimental theater collaborating with the Alfred Jarry Theater (1969). He is one of the creators of the VIRUS group. Since 1997 he has lived in Rome.
Antonio Tabucchi wrote that Savino's painting is a mixture of an expressionist sign and the light line of ink and the delicate tones of watercolor. At the center of his works there is always the human figure, an expressionist sign that transfigures man, into a sort of supernatural being.