One could say about an artist or a writer – also often of a piece of art, whether visual or literary – that “he is classical” only according to certain determining conditions: for example when one has the sensation of finding oneself in front of someone or something that surpasses contemporary fashion, or constitutes a model of formal completeness or manages to express a universal tension. …And indeed in pursuit of a reinvention of the classical, Salvatore Fiume moves along the whole of his creative journey. Or better still, Fiume perceives that the reformulation of this esthetic category can represent a source of authentic modernity, that a new response – that is, different to the one fournished up until now and in any case more advanced – to the spasmodic need of express novelty of avant-gardes is in a renewed bond with the past. …A “petrified echo” of the origin is often present in the works of Salvatore Fiume: it is clearly perceivable in the Casualità archeologiche (Archeological Coincidence) and in the most subtle manner, but no less tangible, in many pictorial cycles. In his complex on the whole, art will always figure like a “sounding board” of time, like a dimension in which the chronological flow acquires an extremely ample and vibrant “volume”.