The Pinacoteca Agnelli presents the largest exhibition dedicated to the artist Salvo (Leonforte 1947 - Turin 2015) entitled Arriving on time, open from Friday, November 1, 2024, to Sunday, May 25, 2025. The exhibition, curated by Sarah Cosulich & Lucrezia Calabrò Visconti, will occupy all three floors of the Pinacoteca in a retrospective path that highlights how Salvo's painting - in the large repeated thematic cycles, in the attention to art history themes, and in the study of light - has always been in continuity with his early conceptual research.

Arriving on time is the largest exhibition dedicated to Salvo's work after his death in 2015. Born in Sicily, Salvo lived in Turin from 1956, where he first approached Arte Povera and conceptual art languages, to then dedicate himself exclusively to painting from 1973, an unconventional choice for the cultural climate of the early seventies. Against the current even in the Italian panorama, Salvo carried out for forty years a unique research and critical reflection on the pictorial medium.

The retrospective exhibition dedicated to him will highlight this absolutely original trajectory, emphasizing with a new perspective how Salvo's painting is not in opposition to his early conceptual period, but absorbs characteristics and intentions, fitting coherently into his artistic path.

Realized in close collaboration with the Salvo Archive, the exhibition focuses on some of the artist's fundamental research motifs: the concept of repetition in the exploration of recurring motifs, understood both as a pictorial technique and as a conceptual urgency; the reflection on painting as a language and on language as art; the relationship between art history and the gaze on everyday life.

Salvo, one of the pioneering artists of the Italian second half of the 20th century, positioned himself independently from currents and trends, always maintaining a particular attention to the subjects and languages of art history. Thanks to this privileged relationship, his monographic exhibition at the Pinacoteca extends for the first time to other spaces of the Pinacoteca and inside the Scrigno, in dialogue with the permanent collection.