Calogero Salemi

CALOGERO SALEMI (Sicily, 1966)
Squarci di giallo, 2026
Mixed media on canvas.
Work consisting of two overlapping canvases.
Archived by Gash Art under number GA00651.
Certificate of authenticity included.
Measurements: 30 × 24 cm.

In *Squarci di giallo*, Calogero Salemi transforms the canvas into an active medium. The cut ceases to be a mere interruption of the plane and becomes a constructive process that relates color, void, and volume. The painting thus expands into real space, occupying an intermediate territory between the pictorial work, the object, and the sculpture.

Calogero Salemi is a Sicilian painter. He began painting and sculpting as a teenager. He transitioned from figurative and informal styles to Gash Art, a movement he founded in January 2016. Among his exhibitions, we note: the Innsbruck Art Fair in January 2019 with the “La Telaccia” Gallery in Turin; the Pavia Art Fair in 2018; and the Palazzo della Regione exhibition in Milan in 2017. He held numerous solo exhibitions in 2020 at the Made4art Gallery in Milan. In 2008, he was awarded the title of “Knight of the Italian Republic” by the President of the Italian Republic. Two of his works are housed at the Holy See in Rome (“The Crucifixion” and “Saint Sebastian”).