Benjamin Salvatore

Guilt (2025)

Photograph

Editions of 2 + 1 AP

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Happiness of the others (2024) (installation view)

Perspex, spray paint, epoxy resin

dimensions vary

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Baptism (2024) (installation view)

Car parts, RDM DMX Relay, DMXking eDMX, copper cabling, coated wire rope

approximately 58 x 52 x 173 cm per car part

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Loom 1, Loom 2, Loom 3 (2024)

Oil and ink on primed / unprimed canvas

179.5 x 199 cm / 199.5 x 170 cm / 220 x 180 cm

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Co-emergence (2024)

Polyester resin, car doors

108 x 215 x 40 cm

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Residue (2024)

Photograph

Editions of 3 + 1 AP

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FACES (2018 - ongoing)

150 digital photographs

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All of this does not matter (2023)

Oil and acrylic ink on canvas

170 x 170 cm

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USERNAME:_ (2023)

Seven photographs

Edition of 4 + 2 AP

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untitled (2023)

Polyurethane foam, pine wood canvas stretchers and strip light

504 x 85 x 15 cm

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There is a cup on the wall

Somebody help us

What do we do

What do we do (2023)

Vinyl print on glass

22 x 22 cm (framed)

Edition of 40 + 2 AP

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untitled (2023)

Ink and acrylic on two sheets of watercolor paper

250 x 150 cm (each)

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System failure II (2023)

Polyurethane foam, spray paint, pine wood, wall paint

152 x 122 x 19 cm (excluding painted wall surface)

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System failure I (2023)

Polyurethane foam, spray paint, pine wood

197 x 266 x 26 cm

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freenonretinalartwork@gmail.com (2022)

Acrylic on stretched canvas strips

170 x 170 cm

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On love and child-rearing and dysfunctionality in general (2022)

Video

1:04 min

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Education II (2022)

Acrylic, oil and pencil on canvas

265 x 197 cm

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Education (2022)

Acrylic, oil and pencil on canvas

265 x 197 cm

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Anagram (Triptych) (2022)

Composite photography print on three perspex panels

250 x 342 cm

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Gitter 22 - Breakages (2022)

Oil and ink on canvas

200 x 170 cm

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Gitter 21 - Intrusion (2022)

Acrylic and ink on canvas

200 x 200 cm

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Gitter 17 - Protection (2021)

Ink, acrylic and gold pigment on canvas

200 x 180 cm

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Self-portrait (2021)

Oil and acrylic on canvas

200 x 180 cm

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B-Shirts (2021 - 23)

Vinyl prints on fabric

Varying sizes

Editions of 4 + 2AP

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A car (DUST) (2021)

Steel, aluminium, polyurethane foam, spraypaint

413 x 172 x 127 cm

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DUST - A series of gold objects (2021)

Spray paint and acrylic on polyurethane foam and various found objects

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Time (2020)

Ink and oil on eleven canvases

223 x 630 cm

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Gitter 11 - Fragility (2020)

Ink on canvas

165 x 195 cm

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Gitter 10 - "Love" (2020)

Acrylic on canvas

175 x 265 cm

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Gitter 5 (2020)

Ink, oil and acrylic on canvas

185 x 137 cm

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VILIFIED (2020)

Ten digital photographs

Varying sizes

Editions of 4 + 2AP

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Gitter 1 (2020)

Ink and acrylic on canvas

202 x 270 cm

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Ghost (2019)

Ink and acrylic on canvas

175 x 265 cm

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Benjamin Salvatore (b. 1987, Germany) is a Cape Town-based artist working in a range of mediums, from painting, photography and sculpture to clothing, screenprinting and video. In each discipline, Salvatore is interested in limitations, restrictions, ruptures, misapprehensions, breakages and failures.

Salvatore’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the RMB Latitudes Art Fair (Johannesburg, South Africa), The FOURTH Gallery (Cape Town, South Africa) and Candice Berman Gallery (Johannesburg, South Africa). In 2020, Salvatore premiered his debut solo presentation, Everybody stand still, with Worldart Gallery (Cape Town, South Africa).

Exhibitions:

2023

RMB Latitudes Art Fair, INDEX, Group Exhibition, Johannesburg, South Africa 

"Reverb 23 - Abstract Resonances", Group Exhibition, Latitudes Online

Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2022

Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

"Death Row Dinner" Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2021

Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

2020

"The Spectacle" Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

"Everybody stand still" Solo Exhibition, Worldart Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

"Cloud-Cuckoo-Land" Group Exhibition, Candice Berman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa

"Apartment Vol.2" Group Exhibition, The Fourth Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa

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