Giuseppe Fortunato

Giuseppe Fortunato was born in Notaresco (Te) on November 5, 1956. His artistic experience developed from a very young age: he exhibited in his first solo show at the age of only 27; he has been known since the eighties for his participation in the most important art exhibitions in the national territory and also abroad. His artistic production is certainly contaminated in the early days by metaphysical painting and later by elements of surrealism; in the eighties an important stage in his growth derives from the meeting and attendance with the Master of the new Italian figuration Remo Brindisi from whom he will perceive that artistic sap that will come from an incessant impulse, even if not following his pictorial styles. At the end of the 1980s, together with other artists from Abruzzo, he gave life to the Images movement. His obsessive research in the care of the technique is expressed, sometimes eclipsing the thematic, with the arrival of a completely personal language that cannot be found over time: such is the Assempaphorismo (apodictic assemblage pictorial emendative lucky). The interested critics closely follow this path which is still flourishing and in perennial innovation. "I would never paint a vase of flowers", this is...