Light, sensitive monochromes, architecture, transparencies, color reflections, visions. This is all that Francesco Lo Savio’s donated to art from 1958 to 1963, completing the golden circle of Italian Art’s contribution to culture and taste worldwide. Lo Savio’s work was extremely needed in a city as rich in history as Rome. Only by the late 1950s, through the efforts of prominent intellectuals, Rome had begun embracing artistic innovations from abroad, creating diverse reactions among the city’s new generation of artists.
Thus, Lo Savio’s work, conducted in isolation akin to a scientific experiment, is imbued with a vibrant spirituality. He directs his interest towards an objective and elemental form of art, indebted to the lineage initiated by Kasimir Malevich’s piece, Black Square on a White Background (1879-1935), that, through the tension between two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional space, confronts and resolves the constructive dilemma of painting. Shedding its role as a passive representation, painting emerges as an active entity, asserting its own presence and essence.