Maurizio Domolato Melchiorre Salomone

Polyhedric Renaissance Synthesis: Artist, Designer, Inventor

Born in Switzerland in 1965, Maurizio Domolato Melchiorre Salomone moves at the synergistic intersection of pure aesthetics, structural-engineering rigor, industrial design, and visual avant-garde.

His professional debut as a PR coordinator and aesthetic consultant in haute couture refined his formal sensitivity early on, cultivating a meticulous attention to detail and a sharp expressive vision. Subsequently, a radical life transition led him toward the world of patents, product development, and industrial design, where he collaborated with international market leaders such as Snaidero Cucine and LAMM (contract collective furniture). This solid, multi-year design background ultimately converged into fine art, where his identity as a Renaissance "Artist-Inventor" synthesizes technical intellectual property with absolute plastic freedom.

Key Institutional and International Endorsements

• Grand Palais de Paris (Art en Capital): His painting research, architectural line, and the "Chaise Double" project were included in the official catalog of the Société des Artistes Français, earning the prestigious and direct historical validation of the institution's President, Martine Delaleuf.

• Chianciano Art Biennale 2026: Officially selected by the Chianciano Art Museum to exhibit his total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) titled "Dedica a Dio".

• Market Valuation: The comprehensive value of his artworks and structural design lines is certified by an elite, official Artistic Coefficient of 5.0.

• Academic Validation: His avant-garde systems and high-tech startup research have been the subject of formal academic studies and Master's engineering theses at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Parma.

The Inventor's Arsenal: Patents and Leading Brands

Salomone has registered 3 industrial patents (including 1 international patent) for functional furniture and mobile kinetic structures engineered for smart cities.

• Leading Collaborations: Validated and operationally recognized by industrial design and contract giants such as Snaidero Cucine and LAMM.

• Kinetic Systems (Seesit.eu / Bromatheon.com): Mobile architectural structures protected by Copyright law since their initial debut in Paris. Notably featuring "Ascension Opera Omnia 001", a singular structural invention: a fine-art painting that physically transforms into a functional chair.

• The SPELL Project (Wardrobe-Shower): A revolutionary system published in the prominent international design magazine Ottagono. It received a prestigious special mention and explicit praise from the celebrated design philosopher and theorist Aldo Colonnetti (former President of IED) for its structural originality and formal cleanliness. His urban utility patents also include the PoopDog container system.

Aesthetic Philosophy: Tactile Synchronism

In the visual arts, Salomone rejects the traditional two-dimensionality of canvas, selecting wood, enamel, and clay as his primary mediums of investigation, branding his signature style as "Tactile Synchronism" (Sincronismo Materico, or Telluric Genesis).

• The Excavation Method: Through a creative process akin to structural demolition or archaeological excavation, the artist strips away physical matter, cutting deep gashes into the wood to expose its internal forces, grains, and knots. The resulting stratification is highly dramatic—dominated by absolute blacks, Prussian blues, and warm ochre earths torn open by golden foils.

• Key Artworks: Monumental canvases and structural pieces such as “SUMUD FLOTILLA” (a profound reflection on cultural resilience and steadfastness), “GAZA”, “Milano”, “Roma”, “Burrasca”, and the complex visual-rhythmic translation of Stravinsky's avant-garde musical movements in “Concerto in paese”.

• The Heraldic Identity: In the masterpiece "Dedica a Dio", the author fully integrates the opacified frame into the artwork itself, sealing it symmetrically with a pure 24k gold cast of his own thumbprint set between parallel geometric lines. This elevates the artist's signature into a heraldic, testimonial mark, complemented by an original autograph poem embedded within the display plaque.

His presence at Rome Art Week 2026 definitively consecrates the trajectory of a total contemporary intellectual—standing as one of the most rigorous, independent, and structurally innovative voices of the modern avant-garde.