Salvatore Falcone - Rain in the Suburbs

The urban landscape was already a popular subject in the Middle Ages and the Modern Era, but predominantly in an idealized manner. Scenes of city life became typical themes with a more realistic interpretation starting in the 19th century. It's worth remembering how, immediately following the realist movements of the 19th century, the Impressionists also placed great emphasis on the everyday, on everyday life, with a certain predilection, however, for the frenetic pace of the city, its crowds, traffic, and typically bourgeois settings.

We can see from this work that artist Salvatore Falcone's conception of landscape is extremely original. Indeed, the recording of sensitive data is deliberately lost in a vague view with strong dreamlike hues. This desire to transpose reality into a visionary, dreamlike dimension is entirely resolved on a formal level. The composition appears highly schematic, constructed on very regular horizontal bands that suggest a superposition of planes within a substantially two-dimensional space. The volumes of the buildings in the background are almost impalpable, rendered through very light washes of color. The artist emphasizes the figures of trees, metaphysical in their repetitiveness, which, together with the lampposts, offer a counterpoint of vertical lines that further schematize the composition. Finally, it is the total immersion in the predominantly blue tones that gives this view such evident symbolic and emotional connotations.

Salvatore Falcone is a Sicilian artist born in Mirabella Imbaccari in 1925. His training and career took place primarily in Milan, where he exhibited his works in various shows (especially his collaboration with the Il Cigno gallery). In his paintings, Salvatore Falcone developed a compelling research based on a highly schematized vision of reality that transposes everything into a dreamlike dimension.

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