The Elena Salamon Gallery in Turin
Elena Salamon Modern Art is a small gallery in Turin’s historic center. Active since the 1950s, it has become a landmark for enthusiasts of modern, contemporary, and Japanese art.
Modern, contemporary, Japanese original art prints
The gallery specializes in original prints and lithographs by the great masters of the twentieth century and in Japanese prints from the Ukiyo-e and Shin-hanga periods, with some forays into contemporary art and street art . The choice of artists and works is guided exclusively by criteria of quality , certainty of provenance and state of conservation.
Guarantee of Authenticity
Since the 1950s, the Salamon family has made it a practice to provide customers with a certificate of authenticity for every work sold, including precise information on references to catalogues raisonnés, editions, states, printers and publishers.
The bibliographical, critical and iconographic information accompanying each work is prepared in light of the latest research. Elena Salamon Arte Moderna is also able to provide valuations across all areas covered by the gallery, for insurance, commercial or condition purposes.
The gallery’s clients receive assistance not only with purchases and sales, but also in assessing work intended to preserve and enhance individual works and collections. The gallery works with several restoration studios, providing professional guidance and supervision for all types of intervention.
A three-generations story
The history of the Salamon family as art-dealer began in 1950, when the grandfather Ferdinando, who was a collector of highly prestigious prints since many years, opened the first gallery in Turin, transforming his passion into a job that, with the support of his wife, brought him to curate several important exhibitions for the GAM gallery in Turin (“Piranesi" in 1961 and "European engraving from the 15th to the 20th century” in 1967). He writes The connoisseur of prints in 1960 (two editions published by Einaudi Essays and a third edition reprinted eight times between 1986 and 2009 edited by Allemandi), and The collection of prints in 1971 published by Mondadori, which had three reprints.
Since 1966 the direction of the gallery passes to his wife Teresa Villa Salamon, the true and fundamental soul of the gallery. Together with her three sons she curates top-level exhibitions including Hokusai in1969, Mantegna in 1970, Dürer in 1971 (exhibition entirely loaned to the City of Milan for the exhibition at Palazzo Reale). In the early 70s the three sons open three independent galleries. Gian Alvise dedicates himself to modern and contemporary art, Silverio runs the family gallery, Harry, than supported by his sons, dedicates himself to paintings and antiques prints in Milan. Elena tells: “Gian Alvise, my father, collaborated with Venice Biennale and in his gallery in Turin he curated monographic exhibitions of Mirò, Tapies, Hartung, De Chirico, Morandi, Picasso, Campigli, Carrà, Corot, Ensor, Renoir, and collective with the artists of Arte Povera and the Transavantgarde ”. In 2002 publishing house Allemandi published his essay posthumously “The pleasure of collecting contemporary prints”.
Monographic exhibitions curated in collaboration with Gian Alvise Salamon's Modern Art between 1990 and 2000: De Chirico, Sutherland, Felice Casorati, Carrà, Campigli, Ensor, Marino Marini, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso and Mirò. Monographic exhibitions curated from 2001 to today: Matisse, Mirò, Chagall, Warhol, Calder, Hokusai and Hiroshige, Picasso and Braque.