Lucio Fontana
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Lucio Fontana
Concetto Spaziale
1965, slits and oil on canvas, 65 x 55 cm -
Concetto Spaziale
1965, slits and oil on canvas, 65 x 55 cm -
Concetto spaziale Teatrino
1962, oil on perforated canvas in lacquered frame 62 x 76 x 4 cm -
Concetto Spaziale
1962, oil, hole and graffito on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
Biography
The Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) deals with the spatial quality of sculptures and paintings and founded the spatialism art movement. The departure of two-dimensionality, of traditional painting and its smooth surface is elevated to a philosophical-compositional image program in Fontana's spatial concepts, the Concetti Spaziale.
His canvases, which are often monochrome, are provided with characteristic cuts or even punctured in a calculated manner. This creates complex energetic patterns that oscillate between a dynamic joy in experimentation and well thought-out destruction of the painted canvas. Fontana recorded these highly innovative artistic ideas in his Manifiesto Blanco (White Manifesto, 1946), as the initial of a new art genre located between architecture, painting and sculpture, which redefined both the dynamics of space and the Significantly influenced the installations of future generations of artists.
In the course of his artistic development, Fontana increasingly realized his creative visions in abstraction. From the mid-1930s onwards, Fontana began to implement his literally large-scale artistic ideas with ceramic works, which ultimately enabled him to take part in the 17th Venice Biennale. It was not until 1947 that Fontana returned to Italy after his exile in Argentina to resume his artistic career in Europe.
In addition to numerous other manifestos, Fontana also campaigned for the end of static art genres. Throughout his life he stood for a departure from the conventional use of artistic media. In his works he then exploded demonstratively the traditional ideas of painting and created with his "Buchi", the perforated and "Tagli" the cut canvases, the world-famous turning point through a visionary work of shadows, inclusion of the environment, form reduction and the Destruction of the metaphorical basis of academic-artistic development.
I do not want to make a painting; I want to open up space.
Exhibitions
Museum and single exhibitions (selection)
2019
Lucio Fontana - Retrospective Multimedia, Art Museum - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow, Russia
Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold, Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Lucio Fontana: on the Threshold, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, United States
Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968), El Museo del Barrio, New York City, United States
2017
Lucio Fontana - Ambienti/Environments, Hangar Bicocca, Mailand, Italien
Lucio Fontana, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes(MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentinien
2015
Omaggio A Lucio Fontana, Fondazione Marconi, Mailand, Italien
Lucio Fontana - Concetti Spaziali, Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin, Italien
2014
Lucio Fontana - Rétrospective, Musée d‘Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAM/ARC), Paris, Frankreich
2012
segno materia spazio, Galleria Forni, Bologna, Italien
Lucio Fontana: CeramicsAspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA
Lucio Fontana - hic et nuncGalleria Comunale di Arte Contemporanea Arezzo, Arezzo, Italien
Lucio Fontana: Prints and Sculpture, P. Gartventure galleryLarchmont, NY, USA
Retrospettiva, Studio La Città, Verona, Italien
2009
Lucio Fontana. Le scritture del disegno, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mailand, Italien
Lucio Fontana - Zeichen und Zeichnung, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, Appenzell, Schweiz
2008
Fontana. Luce e Colore,Palazzo Ducale, Genua, Italien
Il disegno all’origine della nuova dimensione, Museo d‘Arte Mendrisio, Mendrisio, Schweiz
Lucio Fontana. ScultoreGalleria Nazionale d‘Arte Moderna (GNAM), Rom, Italien
2007
Via Crucis - Lucio Fontana, Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), São Paulo, Brasilien
Lucio Fontana - At the Roots of Spatialism, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, Großbritannien
2006
Lucio Fontana: alle radici dello Spazialismo, Italian Cultural InstituteNew York City, NY, USA
Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Lucio Fontana. Venezia / New York, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venedig, Italien
Lucio Fontana. The Poetics of Space between Creation and Representation, The State Russian Museum - Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russland
2004
Carriera „barocca“ di Fontana, Galleria Amedeo Porro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Mailand, Italien
2003
Lucio Fontana, Milan Dobes Museum, Bratislava, Slovakei
2002
Lucio Fontana - le ceramiche, Studio La Città, Verona, Italien