Painter, graphic designer, printer, poet and intellectual. New York artist born in the Bronx, often associated with American abstract expressionism, difficult to place in a specific current or within demarcated borders. Activist involved in major political campaigns for civil rights, in Alabama, Mississippi, Upstate New York and Washington DC Lover of nature ("a golden leaf, a pebble, a crack in a wall, a snail, the shape of the fields ...") and of the created form (poetry, literature, music and visual arts). David Ruff (New York, 1925 - Turin, 2007), who lived in Piedmont between Baldissero, Bagnolo and Turin for over thirty-five years, is at the center of the "Seeming Confines" exhibition at the Don Quixote Space of the Bottari Lattes Foundation from Friday 8 March to Thursday 18 April (inauguration Thursday 7 March, 6 pm - Via della Rocca 37B - Turin).