In Bologna, Hackatao artist duo pays tribute to Lucio Fontana

Hackatao, the Italian artist duo among the pioneers of the international art movement cryptoart wants to pay homage to the master Lucio Fontana inside the Museo Cà La Ghironda in Bologna. The intent of the BEYOND the VOID project, running until Nov. 14, curated by Eleonora Brizi and organized by Museo Cà La Ghironda in collaboration with the Zanini Arte gallery, is to bring the two artists, Fontana and Hackatao, into dialogue through their respective works, symbols of rupture of the conventional artistic scenarios of the relevant era. To go beyond the limits of the canvas for Fontana, beyond the limits of the physicality of the work for Hackatao.

The circular arrangement lets the two works gravitate around each other, mirroring each other, allowing the viewer to be transported in a continuum. Viewing through glimpses of Fontana’s canvas allows the viewer to dive into the key symbols of the 1950s and 1960s through the symbology of Hackatao’s digital universe, which delved inside Fontana’s three-dimensionality to bring to light a new way of making art.

“Fontana was a true revolutionary in the art of his time,” the two artists say. “His experience teaches us that every paradigm shift needs constant dedication and time to be embraced and understood. The vision of this ’Spatial Concept - Waiting, Seven Cuts,’ left us thunderstruck by the intrinsic strength of its essence. We wanted to go beyond the canvas, as Fontana himself teaches, to enter the blackness of those cuts and imagine what had brought him all the way there. To dig inside that wonderful and prolific historical period of the 1950s and 1960s and understand how crucial these were for Italy.”

“The term ’light,’” explains curator Eleonora Brizi, "refers to the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum visible to the human eye. Diffuse reflection by surfaces is the main mechanism by which objects reveal themselves to our eyes. Hackatao’s works, among many peculiarities, are characterized by the presence of many eyes with their eyelids always open, of slits, of cuts. In this ’artistic exchange’ between Hackatao and Fontana, the protagonist is all that is beyond (“beyond”) and is captured by and through the slits as well as by the eyes themselves. That light that lies beyond our universe or reality as we perceive it, to which Fontana paved the way with an act of ’construction’ rather than ’destruction,’ like that of his slashes. And today it is precisely these slashes that are the element of contact and able to unite both Hackatao and Fontana in the same space and at the same time; thus restoring to us the opportunity for an all-encompassing view of what transpires beyond and on this side of the ’canvas,’ of two different, dual entities, two surfaces, two worlds. In Beyond the Void these cuts will be black holes and/or glimpses; the precise point at which the universe congeals."

For all information you can visit the official website of Ca’ la Ghironda Modern Art Museum.

In Bologna, Hackatao artist duo pays tribute to Lucio Fontana

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