Salvo, legally known as Salvatore Mangione, was an Italian artist born in 1947, whose work spanned from the 1960s until his passing in 2015. In 1956, Salvo and his family moved from Catania to Turin, which became his lifelong home and the incubator for his artistic maturation. Starting with low-priced portraits and landscapes, he soon found himself amid the burgeoning Arte Povera movement, rubbing shoulders with art scene luminaries. Notable for his conceptual art phase and marble inscriptions bearing poignant texts, Salvo's art navigated the realms of self, history, and cultural identity. His pivot back to traditional painting in the 1970s marked a period of prolific production, where his works engaged in an intertemporal dialogue with the Old Masters, integrating elements of self-portraiture and historical commentary.