Even if most of them are structured inside breathing landscape borders, this group of pictures by Vincenzo Balsamo is not consumed in the naturalistic articulations which, we know, are virtuously typical of the traditional landscape. Balsamo's painting, more than celebrating visible appearances - even if it comes out of a direct experience of natural reality - is made absolutely concrete in those regions of composition which want to remove all naturalistic correlation of principal substance.

Carlo Giacomozzi    
                   
(from: E. Crispolti, Vincenzo Balsamo, monography, 1992, p. 50, ed G. Corbelli)