The Puglia of the trulli of the olive trees of the dry stone walls

Nino Salamida, the southern Murgia, which includes Alberobello, knows it well. From it starts and to it its pictorial cycles return. His goal, his “pictorial mission” is to describe this land in its best aspects, attesting with his pictorial making his filiation. The murgia for him is mother and homeland. The clear and sunny countryside of the Itria Valley made of silence, places of solitude and tranquility, are aspects for Salamida never forgotten and that is carried jealously in the heart. Landscapes and places are captured in the totality of a Mediterranean light, capable of making joyful chromatic figuration that sings the deposition of golden light on the trulli, dry stone walls, vegetation, giving them the right to be lyrically exalted. Thus describing, comes out of his brushes a pictorial narration of the murgia built with strong realistic thickness. A pure realism, rich in formal phrasebook, able to make up with the fertile and playful color the absence of figures and people.