PAINTING, OIL ON CANVAS by WALTER VISIOLI Born in Casalmaggiore in 1919, died in Sondrio in 2009 at the age of 90 "Fantastic World". 1975 84 x 116 60 x 90. WALTER VISIOLI reached the County of Bormio at the beginning of the 1960s, making it something more than his new homeland. He sang it with his poems proposed almost as a ceremonial in the most diverse situations and occasions; and he did so until the end, describing how much beauty he had discovered in this valley to the point of inventing, perhaps also to pay homage to it, one of the most prestigious prizes for extemporaneous painting, namely the County of Bormio Prize. A competition that marked the artistic history of the Bormiese area and which was accompanied by the personal and human events of its patron, Walter Visioli. A character from other times, a life lived intensely and told in those diary pages which are the volumes he published in which he reveals particular encounters, spicy backstories, VIPs and ordinary people. He, however, was no ordinary person... "When you can't have what you love... you have to love what you have!" he had written as a dedication in one of his books. Visioli loved his land so much, becoming a sort of actor and singer, through paintings and comics, poems and diary entries.