Wood

Brajo Fuso
wood, metal
1962

The Legni (Woods) series indicates Brajo Fuso’s sudden change of direction towards a new stylistic rigour. The artist turns his back on the neurotic fixation with abstraction which characterised his first creative decade with “accumulativa” [accumulations] and “straticromatica” [layers of colours], to embrace a reordering approach, breathing new life into waste materials and confounding chaos by interrupting the natural processes of digestion which they are destined for. This denial of uninhibited fantasy embodies an intimate elan towards an existential alternative, planned and predicated on an internal rigour expressed through a formal reductionism and chromatic essentialism.