Daniel Fuss
MEMFUSS. Archivio nomade

Description

The artistic work of Manuel M. Fuss is inevitably intertwined with his life experience that has led him to cross tragic and sometimes exciting historical events, and to cross the most disparate geographical and cultural borders. Manuel M. Fuss travels with only one passport in his pocket, that of the United States of America, but his true identities are two: that of a Jew and that of a man who has linked his most to the four continents of the Earth, without giving too much importance to the pieces of paper that arbitrarily bind people to this or that country. (…) The New York reality, permeated with cultural and ethnic cosmopolitanism, reconciles him with the world, stimulating in him the first artistic impulses, the love for drawing and painting. On the Asian continent he contributes to the redemption of his battered people, enlisting as a volunteer in the ranks of the newborn Israeli. In Africa he begins his career as an architect, meets his future wife, starts a family. The return to the continent of origin allowed him to consolidate his artistic vocation. Under the guidance of Fernand Leger he took his first steps in the Parisian art world, held his first exhibition, matured the transition from realist to abstract painting, inspired by Cubism. In the Milan of the sixties, which had risen to the capital of modern art, definitively the techniques and stylistic traits characteristic of his works. The cubist influence fades and it is replaced by the letterist one, combined with the collage technique. Immersed in the magical atmosphere of those Milanese years, he frequented the artists’ meeting place, the Jamaica bar, bonding in friendship with Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Antonio Maschera and several other frequenters of the Brera district. (from the introduction by Alfredo Fuss)