A master who has played a role in Italian painting since the late post-war period, Walter Fusi would develop what are still the characteristics of his own unmistakable style in the early 1980s, when he moved back to his native Val d’Elsa (Tuscany), where he still lives and works. Actually born in Udine to Tuscan parents, Fusi would move to Florence whilst still in his youth, the Arte Informale of the 40s-50s determining his vocation as an artist. From this movement, Fusi would move to Geometric Abstractionism and then – having moved to Milan – would in the 60s-70s become part of Concretism.
Returning to Florence in the early 80s, he would however return to Arte Informale and Abstractionism, producing mixed media canvases distinguished by their flat fields of colour. It would be impossible to expect him to include a foreign body such as an Amarena jar in his rigorously geometrical compositions. And in this work for Fabbri, that jar becomes broken into pieces, into flat outlines and elements of blue, in accordance with the deconstructionism that is a familiar feature of Fusi’s art.