The Art of Utility: An Interview with Roman de Salvo

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About the Artist
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Roman de Salvo (born 1965) is a contemporary American conceptual artist whose sculpture and installations utilize everyday objects and materials in inventive and unexpected ways. De Salvo's work combines his interest in craft, technology, language, and materials with ever present attributes of wit and play.

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Quint Contemporary Art
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de Salvo is represented by Quint Contemporary Art (QCA) gallery in La Jolla, California. QCA was founded in 1981 and exhibits contemporary painting, sculpture, installations, drawings, and prints by both emerging and established artists.

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Diaphragm Pumps
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View a Flash animation demonstrating how a diaphragm pump works.

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Seesaws
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All you ever wanted to know about the history of seesaws.

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Alexander Calder and Utilitarian Art
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View a lesson plan on Alexander Calder and Utilitarian Art

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Public Art Commissions
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In 2006, de Salvo completed his largest commission, a site-specific work for the Caltrans District 11 Headquarters in San Diego. Entitled Nexus Eucalyptus, the work is a collection of massive wood segments, 125 feet long and 50 feet wide, suspended above the courtyard of the headquarters campus. The organic lines of the wooden pieces mimic the winding paths of rivers and roads. De Salvo describes the work as “an organic way to express the freeway as organism.

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Mazes Worldwide
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A video showing mazes of the world, using images founds on Google Earth.

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Legways at the New Children's Museum
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Experimental Cyclery by Roman de Salvo explores the simple mechanics of rudimentary cycles as well as the notion of how failure is often a necessary component of the creative process. His fleet of interactive “Legways,” a kid-powered take on the Segway Personal Transporter, requires investigative engineering to make them operate.

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University of California, San Diego
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de Salvo received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego.

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Channels: Contemporary ArtRoman de SalvoSculpture

This teen-produced interview with Roman de Salvo focuses on the artist's site-specific sculptural works on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in downtown San Diego and La Jolla. De Salvo is a contemporary American conceptual artist whose sculpture and installations utilize everyday objects and materials in inventive and unexpected ways. De Salvo's work combines his interest in craft, technology, language, and materials with ever-present attributes of wit and play.

VIDEO | Director and Editor: Erin Bell. Producer: Andres Navarrete. Interview: Erin Bell. Cinematographer: Ross Cummings.

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