Max Hamlet Biography
Max Hamlet Sauvage, well-known painter, sculptor and photographer from Gallipoli, was born in 1950. Most of his life he lived in France, but he received his artistic training in Milan, starting his first painting courses in 1969 at the School of Art Castello Sforzesco, and then attended courses at the free school of Anatomy in Brera. In 1984 he enrolled in photography courses at the ISAD institute. His exhibitions are countless, which began as early as 1972 in Milan and continued in other locations in Lombardy until arriving in London (1976), New York (1978) and various locations in France (1980, 1981), years in which he achieved over 15 national and international awards. He returned to Italy (Gallipoli, 1979, 1981; Milan, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1988) during the decade of the 1980s. In the 1990s the exhibitions took place in various Italian locations (Ferrara, 1991, 1995; Brescia, 1991; Bologna, 1992; Verona, 1993; Milan, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995; Venturina, 1995) and then exhibited three exhibitions in Czech Republic (Prague, 1996 and 1997). For the next ten years the artist continued his exhibitions in France, presenting over nine exhibitions at well-known French galleries (1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003). After many years of absence he returns to Salento, renewed and full of experience, to exhibit various works mainly in Gallipoli (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), but also in Tuglie (2006), Parabita (2007) and Nardò (2008). Very well known for the people of Salento was his exhibition "The city, the memory, the faces", in 2005, where Sauvage paid homage to some of his countrymen, illustrious citizens of Gallipoli who in the past and present make the city and the land famous Salento in the most varied sectors (literature, poetry, music, painting, journalism, politics, scientific research and entrepreneurship). Subsequently he donated some of his works to the Municipality of Gallipoli.
