Saturno Buttò was born in 1957, May 14th, in Portogruaro (Province of Venice). Between 1970 and 1980 he moved to Venice to attend first the High School
of Art and then the Fine Arts Academy. The High School initiated him
into the classical drawing - that will be perfected throughout the
years -, whereas the vocational experiences at the Academy were mainly
about non-traditional way of expressions. After graduation his artistic
personality was already strong, but he did not single out his own
original style yet.
So he decided to segregate himself in his studio to start an elaboration
that would lead soon to a kind of unique painting, owing nothing to any
past or contemporary artist, and being immediately recognizable in the
current international outline as well.
Since 1983 he has been owner of a studio - gallery located in a byroad
of Bibione, a seaside resort in the province of Venice; that place is
conceived as almost unnoticed to the passengers: this choice reflects
the artist’s lone temperament and discretion. Could these two qualities
make us think, as the ancient used to say, that a man’s name can
actually affect his nature? Nomen est omen? For sure we know that his
name is the reference of the peculiar ideographs that stand as his
signature on the works: indeed they are personal variations of the
symbol that represents planet Saturn in the septenarius.
