Ground floor

Alveare (Hive) first saw the light in 1996. The artist has made a number of different versions of this work, which is composed of a series slender copper rods. In the space at the Museo del Novecento, Alveare, 1996 (2024), extends along a large wall entering into relationship with the spiral staircase of access to the museum, designed by Italo Rota.

Alveare is intrinsically connected with water since it was born, according to the artist, out of his observation of the reflections of light on the surface of the sea. The work also alludes to the concept of prop- agation, an effect obtained by the close sequence in which the thin copper rods are placed side by side at different distances, suggest- ing the effect of a spreading wave.

The title of this work is also connected with bees, a world in which Salvadori has recently been showing a certain interest. On the occa- sion of the opening of his work for the Orto Giardino of the monastery of Il Santissimo Redentore in Venice in 2024, he intervened on the upper part of two beehives.

Skylight

Salvadori’s exhibition in Milan is being staged contemporaneously at Palazzo Reale and the Museo del Novecento. In this context a site- specific intervention is present that is able to unite these two institu- tions ideally. It is an installation executed on a skylight made of iron and glass, located in one of the rooms of the Museo del Novecento, that is also visible from the room in Palazzo Reale named after it (Sala del Piccolo Lucernario). This location is an unexpected one as the sky- light represent a point of contact that allows visitors to see the work at the same time from the two places.

Nel momento (In the Moment), 1974 (2025), springs from the desire to turn a situation of complexity, like the one in which the artist found himself operating, into an opportunity.