Saturno Butto Painter Italy 1957

Saturno Butto Painter Italia 1957
Saturno Butto, born in Venice, Italy in 1957, studied at the prestigious liberal Fine Arts Academy in Venice. He started his exhibition career in 1993 when he published his first monograph titled "Portrayed from Saturn: 1989-1992." Saturno Buttò’s artwork is characterized by a formal, yet supremely personal, interpretation of European sacred art and contains technical skills that are reminiscent of great masters of the European tradition. Wood painted figurative rituals, tableaux vivants, and neo-Gothic altarpieces are the skillful creations with which Butto extracts his fascinating mysteries of an "obscure, dark religion." In Butto's visual narrative, the human figure is presented sacred while also having physical and psychological decadence. This concept is brilliantly illustrated by the juxtaposition between the body's innate physical sensuality and its deeper spirituality. By portraying the conflict between eroticism and pain, transgression and rapture, Butto's paintings examine closely the strict and conflicting vision of Western religious iconography through comparisons with the human body. The body is, on one side, exhibited like an object of cult, while simultaneously being denied its value of nascent erotic beauty. He truly believes that his images express the spirituality and rigor that are peculiar to traditional sacred art and conceives each piece as if it was an altarpiece. It is a fascinating tension that, above all, exalts the human figure.
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