Salvatore Caputo is an artist who has been active on the national and international scene for sixty years. His first solo exhibition dates back to 1964; since then, he has participated in numerous prestigious exhibitions, interspersed with solo shows held in public spaces, museums, and private galleries. Trained as an architect, he later decided to turn his passion for painting into his primary profession. After graduating, he experimented with new and diverse forms of expression, creating a notable graphic production, including etchings, silkscreens, and lithographs, as well as a prolific production of medals. Between the 1970s and 1980s, Caputo worked between Rome and Palermo, also focusing on sacred art, creating a series of furnishings and decorative works for various Italian churches. This trend continued to inspire the artist, as demonstrated by the three exhibitions held in the first half of the 1990s at Palermo Cathedral, which was opening its doors to contemporary art for the first time. Beginning in the 1980s, a significant production of art objects began. Initially created on specially constructed supports as "travel objects" and often inspired by medieval diptychs and triptychs, over the years these objects have found other forms of expression. In recent years, Caputo's artistic research has, in fact, focused on recovering the memory of places and traditions, as evidenced by the production of art objects using recycled materials and by his collaborations with ethnologists and anthropologists. Despite the diversity of his subjects, Sicily, with the light of the Mediterranean Sea and its captivating nocturnal atmospheres, is the protagonist of Salvatore Caputo's work. In his works, the artist has often reworked the classicism and colors of eastern Sicily, with the blue of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the shades of green of the Nebrodi Mountains, and Greek artifacts. His most recent works, however, take a "journey westward" through the revisitation of the visual spaces of the Saline.
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