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294: 1702: 78: 215:, Argentina, to Italian immigrant parents, he was the son of the sculptor Luigi Fontana (1865–1946). Fontana spent the first years of his life in Argentina and then was sent to Italy in 1905, where he stayed until 1922, working as a sculptor with his father, and then on his own. Already in 1926, he participated in the first exhibition of Nexus, a group of young Argentine artists working in Rosario de Santa Fé. 1337: 25: 1690: 381:(‘little theatres’), in which he returned to an essentially flat idiom by using backcloths enclosed within wings resembling a frame; the reference to theatre emphasizes the act of looking, while in the foreground a series of irregular spheres or oscillating, wavy silhouettes creates a lively shadow play. Another work from that time, 263:, or Spatialism, in five manifestos from 1947 to 1952. Upon his return from Argentina in 1947, he supported, along with writers and philosophers, the first manifesto of spatialism (Spazialismo)**. Fontana's studio and works were completely destroyed in the Allied bombings of Milan, but he soon resumed his ceramics works in 274:('Spatial environment') (1949) at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan, a temporary installation consisting of a giant amoeba-like shape suspended in the void in a darkened room and lit by neon light. From 1949 on he started the so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of 388:
In the last years of his career, Fontana became increasingly interested in the staging of his work in the many exhibitions that honored him worldwide, as well as in the idea of purity achieved in his last white canvases. These concerns were prominent at the 1966 Venice Biennale, for which he designed
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Fontana often lined the reverse of his canvases with black gauze so that the darkness would shimmer behind the open cuts and create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth. He then created an elaborate neon ceiling called "Luce spaziale" in 1951 for the Triennale in Milan. In his important series of
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cycle, begun in 1949–50, he punctured the surface of his canvases, breaking the membrane of two-dimensionality in order to highlight the space behind the picture. From 1958 he purified his paintings by creating matte, monochrome surfaces, thus focusing the viewer's attention on the slices that rend
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in New York. As a consequence of his first visit to New York in 1961, he created a series of metal works, done between 1961 and 1965. The works consisted of large sheets of shiny and scratched copper, pierced and gouged, cut through by dramatic vertical gestures that recall the force of New York
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Fontana created a prolific amount of graphic work with abstract motifs as well as figures, little-known in the art world, at the same time as he was producing his abstract perforated works. He was also the sculptor of the bust of
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Around 1960, Fontana began to reinvent the cuts and punctures that had characterized his highly personal style up to that point, covering canvases with layers of thick oil paint applied by hand and brush and using a scalpel or
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painters. In 1935 he joined the association Abstraction-Création in Paris and from 1936 to 1949 made expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze. In 1939, he joined the Corrente, a Milan group of expressionist artists.
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dedicates a retrospective to the artist. Tornabuoni art held a parallel show in its Avenue Matignon Paris gallery space. The first major American retrospective since the artist's death came in 2019 at the
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in Venice, he created a series of 22 works dedicated to the lagoon city. He manipulated the paint with his fingers and various instruments to make furrows, sometimes including scattered fragments of
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organized his first show in the U.S., an exhibition of the Venice series, at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. His first solo exhibition at an American museum was held at the
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of Fontana's paintings, sculptures and environments in 2006. In 2013, Luca Massimo Barbero, Nina Ardemagni Laurini and Silvia Ardemagni published a three-volume
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Fontana engaged in many collaborative projects with important architects of the day, particularly Luciano Baldessari, who shared and supported his research for
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series, begun in 1952, Fontana fused the sculptural with painting by encrusting the surfaces of his canvases with heavy impasto and colored glass. In his
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In 1940 he returned to Argentina. In Buenos Aires (1946) he founded the Altamira academy together with some of his students, and made public the
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Fontana's works can be found in the permanent collections of more than one hundred museums around the world. In particular, examples from the
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and, among other things, commissioned him to design the ceiling of the cinema in the Sidercomit Pavilion at the 21st Milan Fair in 1953.
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in Kassel in 1968, he positioned a large, plaster slash as the centre of a totally white labyrinth, including ceiling and floor (
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painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases - which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.
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A rare, large crimson work with a single slash, which Fontana dedicated to his wife and which has always been known as the
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the skin of the canvas. In 1959 Fontana exhibited cut-off paintings with multiple combinable elements (he named the sets
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Anny Shaw, (February 12, 2015), "London's second week of auctions are strong, but more post-war than contemporary"
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to create great fissures in their surface. In 1961, following an invitation to participate along with artists
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Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, September 30, 2007 – January 6, 2008
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and in numerous exhibitions around the world. Among others, major retrospectives have been organized by the
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Shortly before his death he was present at the "Destruction Art, Destroy to Create" demonstration at the
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Sharon Hecker. "Servant of Two Masters: Lucio Fontana's 1948 Sculptures in Milan's Cinema Arlecchino".
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paintings, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age". He devised the generic title
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London in 2015. Even more popular are Fontana's oval canvases. Sotheby's sold a work titled
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from 1928 to 1930. It was there he presented his first exhibition in 1930, organized by the
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Fontana had his first solo exhibitions at Galleria del Milione, Milan, in 1931. In 1961,
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Gareth Harris (November 14, 2013), "Catalogue of Lucio Fontana’s drawings in the works"
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Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia.
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of Fontana's works on paper, including more than 5,500 works in chronological order.
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Christie's London, Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Auction, 28 June 2011.
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The crimson and the white – Lucio Fontana and the blade that took him to space
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Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design, 13 June 2008, New York.
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In November 2015, Christie's set an auction record for the artist's work
473:, London). Since 1930 Fontana's work had been exhibited regularly at the 354: 350: 1662: 1657: 1450: 808: 483: 422: 275: 196: 171: 915: 390: 334: 161: 1325:, L. and Gallery, H., 1999. Fontana. University of California Press. 567:(1963) for £10.32 million in 2008. Part of Fontana's Venice circle, 405: 264: 157: 127: 600:. Oxford University Press, 10/giu/2004. p. 259. Web. 21 Jun. 2012. 270:
Following his return to Italy in 1948 Fontana exhibited his first
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painter, sculptor and theorist. He is known as the founder of
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was sold at Christie's in New York for $ 7 million in 2008.
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Concetto Spaziale – Attesa (Spatial Concept – Expectation)
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on 14 May 2015 – via Museum of Modern Art. moma.org.
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of New York. Then he left his home in Milano and went to
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In 1927 Fontana returned to Italy and studied alongside
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Lucio Fontana: Ambienti Spaziali, May 3 – June 30, 2012
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construction and the metal and glass of the buildings.
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The Creative Spirit: Stories of 20th Century Artists
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Index


lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

Lothar Wolleh
Rosario
Santa Fe
Comabbio
Varese
Brera Academy
Milan
Painting
sculpture
Spatialism
[ˈluːtʃofonˈtaːna]
Argentine-Italian
Spatialism
abstract
Rosario, Santa Fe
Fausto Melotti
Adolfo Wildt
Accademia di Brera
Milan
France
expressionist
Albisola
monochrome

Triennale

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