# Salvatore Garau

Salvatore Garau (born November 3, 1953) is an Italian contemporary artist and sculptor.

## Quotes of Salvatore Garau

* Immaterial sculpture is not seen with the eyes but with the heart.
** Quotes of Salvatore Garau in Vittorio Sgarbi. Con un artista in difesa del paesaggio, Panorama, 14.08.2024, pp. 75
* The void, only apparent, is actually imbued with life and sacred mystery. Divine energy has made the void a manifest work, and from the void everything has come.
* Just the title, a soft light and the total absence of any physical intervention on the wall are already an immense presence.
* Will the concept of the Sacred exist in some planet of another galaxy where, by now it is certain, thousands of worlds preserve some form of life?
* We are living in a moment in which our physicality, our being there is replaced by our virtual images and our voice, even this impalpable. Our being flesh and blood has to deal with the absence that is the true presence in these times [referring to his 'I Am', The invisible sculpture, Garau make in 2021 during Covid19 era.
** Quote of Garau, in 'Venduta scultura che non esiste: Salvatore Garau e l’immateriale' 2021, Yahoo Finance, May 2021
* The vacuum is nothing more than a space full of energy, and even if we empty it and there is nothing left, according to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, that nothing has a weight. Therefore, it has energy that is condensed and transformed into particles, that is, into us.
** Quote of Garau in "Artist sells 'invisible sculpture' for $18K", by M. Hollan, Yahoo News, June 3, 2021.

## Quotes about Salvatore Garau

* What is the problem? If someone goes to bed with your wife you get angry, but if you go to bed and you agree, the question is resolved. [...] If the works have been made available by the authors themselves. It's all linear. If anything, it will be a question of understanding what the product of this union is. On the other hand, it would be artistically serious if one intervened on a work without the author's consent. In practice it is unthinkable that this operation will be done on a work of the sixteenth century, just to understand. (Vittorio Sgarbi)
* This cosmic character of Salvatore Garau's figurative world, this emotionalized universalism links his aesthetics with the tradition of romanticism, especially of romantic landscape painting, in which imposing natural phenomena are interpreted as a metaphor for the cosmos and the metaphysical hierarchy of existence. (Lóránd Hegyi)
** The tone of emotions, observations on the romanticism of a contemporary painter, Limn Gallery of San Francisco, Capricorno Gallery of Waghington DC
* Triumph of immediacy, aesthetic enjoyment, power of color, free spontaneity, a call to something gigantic, powerful, improbable, to something absent but substantial; this is what manifests itself in the new, small, enigmatic sheets that Salvatore Garau dedicated to Richard Wagner. The movement of the stripes of color - pulsating, restless, unpredictable, paths of unstoppable energies and tensions - suggest wind and flames, bodies that contort and interpenetrate, full of power and sensual force [...] seductive and disturbing are not however dedicated only to Richard Wagner [...] features that are not secondary to understand his poetics, in which an obsessive monochromatism, made up of shades of red, seems to evoke the spirit of the mythical struggles of the heroes of Wagner. (Lóránd Hegyi)
** Lóránd Hegyi. Salvatore Garau. Red Wagner, Ed. Corraini, Rosso Wagner - "The evocation of the great dimension. Observation on Salvatore Garau's Wagner sheets.", Paris, 2014, ISBN 978-88-7570-477-3
* Salvatore Garau's canvases open onto a gigantic scene, an unlimited horizon that becomes the scene of majestic and impressive events ... We are confronted with an unknown energy. (Lóránd Hegyi)
** The tone of emotions, observations on the romanticism of a contemporary painter, Limn Gallery of San Francisco, Capricorno Gallery of Waghington DC
* They are powerful signs, those that Garau wanted to paint. They are the reconnection of a tradition that has its roots in the best Renaissance and even earlier in Italian sacred art but revisiting it in a contemporary, not to say futuristic, key. They are a reflection on what the transcendent is: on this or other planets, even if there were other intelligences, the question of what is not visible would still arise. It is the attempt of art to suggest more than answers, the eternal questioning.
** (Stefano Salis), Il Sole 24 Ore