Salvatore Arnone's images gravitate mainly around the search for a personal idea of beauty that often melts into sadness and silence, of harmony in chaos, of balance within the imperfection that represent the leitmotiv of all his work. At present, the author focuses only on his personal work and experiments with other media than photography.
AVAILABLE ARTWORKS BY SALVATORE ARNONE
ONE Series
Although photography remains Arnone's primary form of expression, the artist begins to see certain limitations in this medium when it comes to adequately depicting his altered and often dreamlike vision of reality. In this series, photography is combined with various techniques (pastel, acrylic, pencil, etc.) to represent the duality of the objective/subjective, the real and the imaginary.
The Balance Series
With Balance the artist starts exploring more deeply the boundaries of the photographic media by mixing it with different techniques on a very traditional subject (classic sculptures). Pictures come from the collections of the Archeologic Museum of Naples and the Louvre in Paris.
Immaculate Series
Immaculate closes the body of work started with Paranoia. This series is made of a single image (‘Egg’) that represents the bubble the artist lives in, isolated from the external world.
Labyrinth Series
Labyrinth continues the exploration begun in the previous two series (Paranoia and Lullaby). Unlike the first two chapters, all the images in this series were created and post-produced in 2020 and began to show the artist's interest in experimenting with other media, in combination with photography, to better express his altered perception of the world around him.
Lullaby Series
Lullaby is the second chapter of a larger body of work that pushes further the themes and ideas explored in the series Paranoia. Again this collection of images was arranged ‘a posteriori’ with pictures shot over a range of 7 years stressing the constant interest of the artist for the same recurring topics.
Paranoia Series
Paranoia is the first chapter of a larger work that explores some of the recurring themes in the artist's work: disenchantment, melancholy, and his own personal idea of beauty. The images were collected between 2014 and 2021 on different occasions, while he was working on his fashion editorials or traveling the world, and were organized (and often edited and post-produced) just a few years later.
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Italian artist Salvatore Arnone lives and works in Paris since 2014. After a debut of career as an engineer, he moved into jewelry design and worked for different brands around the world for almost 10 years. Despite this immersion in the creative field, at some point he felt the need to dedicate himself solely to photography and focus on his own vision.
In 2010 he got published for the first time on Vanity Fair Italia and over the years his work has been displayed on several magazines and exhibitions all over the world. From the age of 25, he began to experience progressive hearing loss due to genetic cellular degeneration that forced him to use hearing aids. The lack of one sense deeply affected his perception of the world around him and his social relationships pushing him to a slow but constant process of self isolation that is well visible in all his production.