La stanza delle tazze

Active since the late 1960s, Remo Salvadori adopted a different approach from his contemporaries from the very outset. The key elements are the materials, carefully chosen and worked by hand into simple forms that appear indebted to the geometry of Piero della Francesca, and the dimension of time, as suggested by the invitation to engage in unhurried meditation on the work. Cups, recurrent motifs of the Tuscan artist’s work, are arranged on two sides of the room: thin surfaces of iron painted in the three colours of human spirituality, blue, red and yellow, on the left and the “colours of images”, green, pink, black and white, on the right. A golden cup acts as a link while suggesting the symbol of the ouroboros at the same time. While colours are thus related to the human sphere, metals are instead an expression of the spirituality of the earth for the artist.
The viewer is invited in this room to enter into a dialogue with forms, elements of an almost arcane nature, and colours, the expression of universalities in equilibrium. (Transl. by Paul Metcalfe per Scriptum, Roma)