Salvatore Ruggeri was born in Sicily in 1951 in a small town, Itala Marina, on the Ionian coast between Messina and Taormina.
Colors, scents and flavors of the place, sun, citrus, boats, cliffs and above the sea `Is this affecting his childhood. Paint and color everything that attracts and stimulates his imagination and looks in the `nature`.
In 1975, the transfer in Tuscany is an important turning point in his artistic career. The `contact` with the historical and cultural context represented by the city of Florence and the many artistic opportunities offered by location, is stimulus for his passion, never dormant, to the painting and the visual arts. He attended museums, exhibitions and art galleries. He is dedicated to reading books and monographs on artists who have made art history and marked the evolution of the technical and formal painting '800 and '900. Impressionists, Macchiaioli and currents of modern art, no less than many artists of the '500 and '600 Italian, Caravaggio head, fascinate him and give him a vision of the "paint" increasingly wide and rich. He devoted himself to painting in all the free time in the commitments of his "official" work.
In 1982, he visited the retrospective dedicated to the painter Renato Guttuso at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the vision of the exhibits and the expressive power and artistic perceived mark his emotional relationship with painting, which becomes mo...
Ti ringrazio... Le mode molto spesso inibiscono la fantasia, uniformano il pensiero, le coscienze ed il gusto. La "libertà" è un valore assoluto da difendere sempre... anche nell'arte.
