Maurizio Vetrugno’s adventure in art began at the end of the 1970s when, having left the province of Turin, he began to attend course at the DAMS in Bologna, where he was among the founders of the non-profit space Neon. In the golden age of the return to figuration, his debut could not have taken place anywhere but in the field of painting, with a series of canvases featuring the names of Christian saints, martyrs and mystics, and bearing impressions of the shape of the body in various postures. The following passage led him to produce something else completely different, in line with a need for renewal which would always characterise his poetics. [...]
