Salvo (Salvatore Mangione born in 1947 in Leonforte, Sicily) at the end of the 60 belonged to the group of Turin 'Arte Povera', as well as the Italian variant of Conceptual Art. the early 70s, he began to translate the themes of his art to painting, making Western genesis of this means a defining aspect of his reflections. (This can be seen in the catalogs of the most important exhibitions: Museum Folkwang, Essen, 1977, Kunstmuseum Luzern and Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, Lyon, 1983;, Boymansvan Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam and Musee d'Art Contemporain, Nimes, 1988) .