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Sal Garau
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Salvatore Garau
1953 Santa Giusta, Province of Oristano, Italy
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| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze |
| Occupation | artist |
Salvatore Garau (born 1953) is an Italian artist from Sardinia.
Life
Garau was born in Santa Giusta, a town in the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italy. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze. He graduated from then 1974. In 1977 he became the drummer in the progressive rock group Stormy Six. After Stormy Six disbanded, he became a visual artist. He had his first solo show in 1984. He participated in the 50th Biennale di Venezia in 2003 and showed work at the European Parliament in Strasbourg in the same year.
In 2005 he painted a large abstract work on sheet of PVC. The sheet was hung to cover the scaffolding on a building in Corso Magenta in Milan. In 2006 he made the Installation art Ichthys Sacro Stagno. For that work he created large ponds on the floors of three churches in towns in the Province of Oristano. He then put fish from nearby ponds into the church ponds.
In 2009 he had a solo show at the Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Saint-Etienne, in France.
Garau has work in several museums including the Museo del Novecento (formerly in the Civico Museo d'Arte Contemporanea), the Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna and the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea in Milan.
