The rarefied look 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. Andrea Ferrari

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