The 23 Artworks of Lucio Fontana

Se in geometria razionale la retta è un insieme di punti totalmente ordinato allora pare del tutto naturale come dai primi “Buchi” del 1949 Lucio Fontana arrivasse a proporre, nel 1958 alla galleria milanese Il Naviglio, i primi lavori con i cosiddetti “Tagli”, poi battezzati dall’artista “Attese”; ...

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The oustanding contribution of Fontana to the installation of the 9th Milan Triennale (1951), designed by his friend Luciano Baldessari with the collaboration of Marcello Grisotto, was divided into two monumental project: the /

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With a technical freedom and creative daring equal to those of this later works, Fontana would in 1934 work on various abstract sculptures in iron and coloured gesso which were exhibited in a controversial one-man show held in January 1935 at the Galleria del Milione; around this time he also produc...

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Lucio Fontana was born in Argentina, where he was influenced by the classic sculptures and architecture of his father, and spent many years living in Italy. The experimental matrix in his artworks began to unfold as a result of his life in both countries. Yet, it was in the European peninsula where ...

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Lucio Fontana devoted an important part of his creative energy to collaborating with architects. This appeared already in the interwar years and continued with renewed monumentum after 1947. He did not limit himself, however, to the traditional inclusion of independent reliefs and sculptures, some o...

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