Artists

Salvatore Emblema

Press release

White Cube Paris is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work spanning the early 1960s to mid-1980s by the late Italian artist Salvatore Emblema (1929–2006). Informed by his rural surroundings in southern Italy, Emblema worked with natural materials and organic matter, including raw jute, leaves, volcanic earth, petrified lava and oxidised metals. Working independent of the country’s post-war avant-garde, which was centred in the northern cities, Emblema’s artistic life was committed to a set of concerns that rendered his work resistant to stylistic classification yet indebted to the movements of his time.