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Salvatore Fiorello

Place of birth Cardiff, Wales
Country of residence United Kingdom

Salvatore Fiorello’s paintings depict depopulated urban spaces that are devoid of people but full of atmosphere. However they are anything but menacing as he uses bright colours: purples, pink, aqua and oranges. The result is a set of paintings that look like the backdros to a kitsch 1960s psychedelic film noir.

The images are made up out of a series of horizontal lines, and two shades of one colour, giving the over all effect of squinting through half open Venetian blinds.

The locations of the pictures are vague, as signs have been omitted. Consequently we see similarities between the generic buildings that make up a city with the images looking both familiar and strangely abstracted.

Our eyes are encouraged to look vertically, down the street or up at a building, but because the images are made up of horizontal lines our eyes move from right to left and up close the effect is like staring at the dots created by a cathode ray tube.

Fiorello studied at UCE, Birmingham (BA Fine Art Painting) and Royal College of Art (MA Painting). He lives and works in UK.

Forthcoming exhibitions:
June 2008 Solo show Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield

Solo exhibitions:
2005
BLOC Space, Sheffield
2004
Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2003
SUMO, Sheffield
BLOC Space, Sheffield
2001
Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
1998
Levis Show Birmingham

Selected group exhibitions:
2007
Eisteddfod, Mold, Wales
NAB, New Art Birmingham
2006
‘Urbia’ Sheffield University Gallery; ‘Show One’ no more grey, Shoreditch, London; ‘Gilchrist Fisher Award’ Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London
2005
Fosterart, London; Glasgow Art Fair BLOC Space, Scotland; Florence Gallery, London
2004
Eisteddfod Cardiff, Wales; Art 2004 Catto Contemporary, London
2003
Mail-Art Sala Conferenze, Biblioteca Civica, San Remo, Italy; Citi-zen Art Sheffield 03
2002
BLOC Space, Sheffield
2001
Excursions VTO Gallery, London; Art 2001 Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
ARCO Laurent Delaye Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2000
Fakescape Mellow Birds, London; On Swedish Ground Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden; Assembly Stepney City, London
2000 - 2002; Architects Associated, Birmingham
1999
ESNBA, Paris, France
1998
Stewarts Solicitors, London
1997
Fringe Arcadian Centre, Birmingham
1996 - 1997
Natale in Bottega Bottega DArt, San Remo, Italy; Winter Exhibition Ferens Art Gallery, Hull

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