Albino De Francesco has surprised me every time with new forms he has drawn, painted, sculpted, and designed, all meticulously noted in countless notebooks, created with great imagination starting from the harshest reality. Initially, he painted fields saturated with Pre-Raphaelite-inspired roses, influenced by Alma Tadema. Then came paintings of small men in precarious balance immersed in nature, countless canvases and drawings with hands asking for charity, dangerous flowers, raised swords, evocations of ships on distant horizons, bolts, screws, faces hidden behind enigmatic grids, points of light in space—all works that lead to wonder. …

(Excerpt from the text ‘Albino the Dreamer’ by Maria Rosa Pividori)