Saturno Buttò

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Saturno Buttò was born in 1957, May 14th, in Portogruaro (Province of Venice).

Between 1970 and 1980 he moved to Venice to attend first the High School of Art and then the Fine Arts Academy. The High School initiated him into the classical drawing - that would be perfected throughout the years - whereas the vocational experiences at the Academy were mainly about non-traditional ways of expression.

After graduation, Saturno Buttò’s artistic personality was already strong, but he did not identify his own original style yet. So he decided to isolate himself in his studio to start an elaboration that would lead, soon, to a unique style of painting, owing nothing to any past or contemporary artist, and being immediately recognisable to erudite collectors worldwide.

The first exhibition was in 1993. In the same year the first monogrphic catalogue “Ritratti da Saturno” came out. In 1999 another monograph with title “Opere 1993 – 1999”. Since 90’s he has been organizing his production between Europe and United States.

Since 1983 Saturno Buttò has been the owner and director of a studio-gallery located in a byroad of Bibione, a seaside resort in the province of Venice; that place is conceived as almost unnoticed to the passengers: this choice reflects the artist’s lone temperament and discretion. Could these two qualities make us think, as the ancient used to say, that a man’s name can actually affect his nature? Nomen est omen? For sure, we know that his name is the reference of the peculiar ideographs that stand as his signature on the works: indeed they are personal variations of the symbol that represents planet Saturn in the septenarius.

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