[...] above all, Balsamo's pictorial act is an act of intellectual projection,
a radiography of the essential moments of the history of art.[...]

[...] And at least in the case of Vincenzo Balsamo it expresses the concept that all this pictorial world based on its own language, having its own figurative syntax and netlike architecture, and possessed of its own dynamic variableness, ties in with the light and draws its impulse from it - the creative soul of the work of art.[...]

[...]the work of Vincenzo Balsamo brings the the traces of a universal historical memory back to life and delivers them to us[...]

[...]and an enriching force in the quest for painting as a "language".

Demosthenes Davvetas  
                     
(from: D. Davvetas, Vincenzo Balsamo, catalog of the exhibition to Decouvertes of Paris, 1994, ed G. Corbelli)