It is in the rarefied and dreamily suspended nature of his landscapes of Italy’s Salento region that the key to the painting style of artist Marco Tommaso Fiorillo is to be found. Silent, unspoilt landscapes quietly disappearing towards undefined horizons, caerulean distances fading away among cultivated fields and dry-built traditional stone walls, remote profiles of ageless fortified farms, flaming sunsets starkly profiling lonely, towering palm trees and images of immutable countryside vistas which resonate with the charm and glamour of ages past. Rare - or even completely missing - in his paintings is the human figure, in a personal vision framed by a refined and imperceptible melancholy, in which an occasionally mild - but more often harsh and bare and always ideally unspoilt - wilderness of his beloved region of Salento becomes a deeply moving love declaration to this generous land of his thanks to the artist’s own vision and flair. And it doubtless is the sudden unexpected bursting – so typical of this warm-hearted Southern region – of vibrant chromatic shades, of vigorous colors hailing to the age of Impressionism which dazzles and stops in his tracks the observer, stealing one’s heart in front of a landscape revisited and truly reinvented by Fiorillo thanks to his own deep and exquisitely personal sensitivity. Exactly as it happens with those same ageless countryside landscapes, which even today continue to surprise and enchant those who visit them.

The exhibition of the painter Mark Thomas Fiorillo will be held for the second time in the beautiful exhibition hall of the Foundation Palmieri , former ancient church of San Sebastiano di Lecce behind the Duomo . The painter does not expose Salento since 2011 and this year will be presented fifty works in oil on wood or canvas and pastels that the artist created during this year. The production has as its main subject the Salento area , followed by some studies of nudes , portraits and still lifes of fruit and vegetables. In the current production have certainly influenced the palette frequent trips to Spain (Madrid , Toledo , Segovia .. ) and many visits to museums, particularly the most important ones in Madrid. Great feeling aroused in him the many visits to the house -museum of Joaquin Sorolla . The exhibition will start on Tuesday, December 10th at 18:30 and will end on Sunday, December 22, 2013 . The inauguration will be Toti Carpentieri who will present the artist and his work.

From 10 to 20 December 2011 will be held in the jerseys of paintings of Mark Thomas Fiorillo. The exhibition will include oil paintings, pastels and watercolors.

Exposition paintings 15 -26 December 2010