Danilo Susi

Born in 1949, Danilo Susi is a medical photographer, past president of AMFI (Associazione Medici Fotografi Italiani), which he founded. He lives and works between Termoli and Pescara.

In the 1970s, he began his journey in photography as a self-taught Nikon enthusiast.

In 2004, he conceived the idea of “painting water”, inspired by the Impressionism of Claude Monet and the creativity of Franco Fontana. Thus was born the ACQUASTRATTA project: abstract, highly pictorial images created without post-production.

After registering the brand, Susi began creating art accessories, reproducing his photographs on fine fabrics in limited editions. From ACQUASTRATTA came the project La natura che veste: dal file al foulard (“Nature That Dresses: From File to Scarf”)—a line of exclusive shawls and scarves inspired by water. The project was presented for the first time in 2012 at Palazzo Isimbardi during Fuorisalone, at the invitation of the Milan Provincial Department of Fashion.

Later, Danilo Susi decided to “animate and materialize” his images, creating new series of sub-projects:

• ANIMALIA – water remains the habitat in which animals live and reflect
• FLEUR – floating flowers and petals
• SEGNI – water trails, snow streaked by tree shadows, traces of wet sand
• CORPO UMANO – floating anatomies
• COMPOSIZIONI – panels with multiple polychromatic images
• MASCHERE – mirrored pairs
• CONFINI – two-tone blends fading into one another

His pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, as gifted by nature and revealed through the wonder of colors, belongs to the modern abstract genre. Alongside Carlo D’Orta (Rome) and Albano Paolinelli (Pescara), Susi joined the art collective REALISMO ASTRATTO (Abstract Realism), led by art critic Valerio Dehò—a movement exploring abstraction from reality itself. It was featured among the latest artistic trends in the catalog La via italiana all’informale curated by Virgilio Patarini and published by Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori.

“My generation,” explains Danilo Susi, “grew up admiring Franco Fontana’s photographs: intense colors, sharp cuts, geometries built on light […] Today, in the digital era, I continue to uphold the ‘purity’ of photographic technique by avoiding post-production, emphasizing what nature already offers on its own. Water, in fact, has become my palette; its reflections are my visible world, and its colors—intense, varied, and shifting with the light—have become pictorially abstract works that express the relativity and fleetingness of the moment.”

That same photographic purity, devoted to the infinite faces of water and sky, now translates into an exclusive series of graphic designs for Tecnografica wallpapers. Reflections, clouds, and horizons become the visual raw material shaped by Danilo Susi to create new designs that not only decorate spaces, but also expand their boundaries—granting interior design a new and unexpected sense of depth.