The selection of those 15 images/landscapes from the body of work ISOLITUDINE produced during the years I was living in Sicily, was made keeping in mind my beloved Francesco LoJacono, a Sicilian landscape artist of the Belle Époque.
Francesco LoJacono is a Mediterranean painter par excellence, but one of the few who knows how to give back the most subtle sensations, such as perfume, wind, heat and dust that weigh on everything. He was nicknamed "Ladro del sole".
My selection of those 15 images refer mostly to his latest painting period (1891-...) where his work shifted towards an interpretation of the landscape through his own state of mind and soul, a period where he was experimenting and shifting from the romantic-realism he was renowned for, to a more abstract reflection of inner feelings of solitude, nostalgia and subtle melancholy.