Born in Portogruaro – VE in 1957, Saturno Buttò studied at the Liceo Artistico and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, graduating in 1980. His work is characterized by a very personal formal interpretation of European sacred art and by a technical expertise impeccable, reminiscent of those of the great masters of our pictorial tradition.
In constant conflict between eroticism and pain, transgression and ecstasy, Buttò’s precious wooden paintings “dissect the Western” religious iconography ‘s uncompromising and contradictory view of the body, exhibited on the one hand as an object of veneration, denied on the other in its value as pure erotic beauty.
The result is a fascinating tension that highlights, above all, the human figure, which has always been at the center of the scene in his work. Buttò, after more than a decade spent in his studio perfecting the oil technique, began his exhibition career in 1993, the year in which his first monograph was also published: “Portraits from Saturno: 1989-1992”. Since then, numerous solo exhibitions have followed in Europe, Asia and the United States. He subsequently published four other monographic catalogs: ”Opere 1993-1999” and “Martyrologium (2007) as well as” “Saturnicore (2013)” and “Breviarium Humanae Redemptionis” (works from 2007 to 2014) The artist lives and works in Bibione in the province of Venice.
