Un’idea di astrazione tra Concretismo e Gestaltpsychologie: Nino Di Salvatore e la Teoria dello Spazio

Although it does not represent the debut of Nino Di Salvatore as a theorist (in 1951 and 1952 he already wrote and published his two first short essays), the core of texts that he elaborated between 1971 and 1991 and that took the title of Teoria dello Spazio can be considered one of the most complete and mature examples of his aesthetic and formal reflection. In Teoria dello Spazio Di Salvatore formulated his own view about a new way for abstractionism, bringing organically together the innovative idea of abstractionism shared with the Italian MAC group and principles ofGestaltpsychologie. the Teoria dello Spazio represents a synthesis of issues and questions that he also as a painter resolved, demonstrating how the operational and theoretical level are in his activity intrinsically connected and always necessary to each other.