The most complete and advanced publication to date on the artist’s practiceOne of the most emblematic and mysterious protagonists of the return to painting during the 1980s, Alberto Abate (Roma, 1946-2012) belonged to those brave artists who went against the tide, inspired by historians like Maurizio Calvesi and Italo Mussa, fleeing from the avant-garde experiences of the period that were considered guilty of being closed off to their own repetitiveness.