Graecians

Brajo Fuso
assemblage
1965

The courtyard of the Civic Museum at Palazzo della Penna is home to three mounted statues from the Elleni (Graecians) series by Brajo Fuso (1899 – 1980), a leading Perugian artist. The three statues have anthropomorphic shapes and are constructed from assemblies of assorted scrap metals including household objects, metal sheets and fittings recovered from defunct vehicles. Many of Brajo Fuso’s works feature a creative use of waste residues from industrial society’s mass consumption and provide an inventive and noteworthy interpretation of the stylistic and thematic concerns of Pop Art.