Il Fuseum is located in Perugia, in the Monte Malbe area; it is a park-museum that collects nearly 150 works by the Perugian artist and doctor Brajo Fuso (1899-1980). After a figurative debut, Brajo moved towards experimentation, focusing on the potential of color, gesture (anticipating the results of Pollock’s Action painting) and later on the material, becoming one of the main representatives of the poetics of the “art of scrap” and the found object. The name Fuseum comes from the fusion between the surname Fuso and the word “museum”, according to the wish of the artist and his wife (Elisabetta Rampielli, also a painter), who from 1960 built in the holm oak park north of the city a complex populated with sculptures made from various materials, a work of art created over two decades and composed of several independent parts. Upon the artist’s death, the property passed, according to his wishes, to the Sodalizio di San Martino, an ancient city institution of assistance, charity, and culture founded in 1574. In the “Gallery” since 2008 a rich selection of Fuso’s works has been gathered: eleven environments already arranged by the artist host groups of objects divided into cycles (Straticromie, Acidocromo, Cromoggetti, Legni, Metalloplastiche, etc.), the so-called “Coccibus” collects most of his ceramics and early figurative works, the “Pittocromo” reconstructs his studio with much of the materials and tools used to create his bizarre compositions.
Information about Fuseum
Strada dei Cappuccini, 1R
06121 Perugia (Perugia)
349 – 5774738
info@fuseum.eu
Source: MIBACT
