SALVATORE PUGLIA

Born in Rome in 1953, Salvatore Puglia lives and work in the south of France.

After years of research in that discipline, he began exhibiting his installations in 1986. Since then, his artistic investigations have focused on the documentary sources of images. Puglia regards historical traces as material to be transformed, and thus takes as his starting point images “stolen” from the past, which he then reproduces, playing with the transparency and layering of the materials used. In doing so, he transforms their meaning and interpretation.

Puglia’s writings and art works have been published in periodicals such as Quaderni storici, Détail, Linea d’ombra, Revue de Littérature Générale, Vacarme, Lo sciacallo, Mediamatic, Issues in Contemporary Culture and Aesthetics, Any, Ecrire l’histoire,  and Mediapart.

Salvatore Puglia is represented by Galerie Sit Down, Paris

Main exhibitions

2018 Return to Eden, FLAIR Galerie, Arles
        Transit, Etant donné, Nîmes

2017 Des intrus chez les étrusques, Galerie Sit down, Paris

2015 Inventaire, Galerie Huit, Arles
        Eden, FLAIR Galerie, Arles

2014 Le jardin des monstres, Galerie Sit Down, Paris,

2012 Rupestri, Alessandro Carbone Arte, Rome

2011 SP O tempora, Galerie Sit Down, Paris

2009 Time drip, Galleria s.t, Rome
Identifications, Galerie Sit Down, Paris
        Identifications,
 Galerie Le troisième œil, Bordeaux

2005 Inventarium, Fnac Montparnasse, Paris

2004 Six leçons de drapé, Moments d’art, Paris
        Filmini, Borgotsunami, Rome
        Antiquarium, Galleria Del Borgo, Rome

2003 La philosophie dans le boudoir, 3A, Rome
        Sei lezioni di panneggio, Galleria Del Borgo, Rome

2000 Deutsche Menschen, Maison Heinrich Heine, Paris
Project : Personal monuments, Overgaden, Copenhagen
         A Parachute, Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht

1999 Iconografie transitorie, Lo Studio, Rome
Bilder, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienne

1998 3bisF, Aix en Provence
        Stationen, Palais Yalta, Francfort

1997 Kópeskönyvek, Vizivarosi Galeria,Budapest

1995 Abstracts of Anamnesis,
Onassis Center, New York
        Histoire de l’œil, Lo Studio, Rome

1994 Music on Bones, Galeria 21, Sankt Pietroburg
        Actes, Tribunal administratif, Strasbourg

1993 Aschenglorie, Lo Studio, Rome

1992 Leçons d’anatomie, Galerie Fnac, Paris
        Museo, Galerie Alternance, Strasbourg

1990 Small Talks,
Instituto Cultural de Macau, Macao
313. Kein Marternbild.
Institut culturel français, Naples

1988 Ash-boxes, Galerie Fnac, Strasbourg

1987 A sea-change, Centro Ellisse, Naples

1985 Falsapartenza, Galerie ADEAS,Strasbourg

Public collections

Galeries Photo Fnac, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Hôtel Dieu, Paris
Altar Aalto Museo Jyväskylä, Finland
Artothèque, Strasbourg
ESPE, Nîmes