When Savelli discusses his use of white, he talks abaut white as being or representing interior. But it is not simply inside, as he explains, because there is darkness there.
This white he has used exclusively for over twentyfive years refers to a light that comes out of obscurity, the acceptance of the shadows of the inner self and yields another kind of light: as in the world enlightenment...
Savelli continued to actively probe the world of white geometrie forms which resonate with singular allure and mystery. Bis accomplishment, his oeuvre, is testamony to a gentle spirit, a determined search, and an unyielding will to create universal statements about the human light within.
Ned Rifkin
Curator of Contemporary Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
September, 1984
Catalog: PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea 26 oct-25 nov 1984
Ned Rifkin - Savelli:Five decades
