Monfalcone will host a major exhibition dedicated to Fontana from December

From December 7, 2019 to February 29, 2020, the Monfalcone Gallery of Contemporary Art will host the exhibition Lucio Fontana and Worlds Beyond the Canvas. Between Object and Painting; the exhibition set up in the Regional Archaeological Museum of Aosta, entitled Lucio Fontana. His Long Shadow, Those Traces Not Erased, which was a great success, will move to Monfalcone, but there will be no shortage of additions and changes.

"After the huge success of the exhibition on Futurism, another tasty opportunity for the city, which will thus have the chance to admire the works of another great artistic current, Spatialism. From Fontana’s cuts to Fontana’s spatial concepts, then moving on to Manzoni, Tancredi, Dova and Crippa, we will admire an excursus in more than twenty years of great cultural message, thus placing Monfalcone at the top of international art history," said Culture Councillor Luca Fasan.

The exhibition kicks off with thirty works by Lucio Fontana, including canvases, ceramics and papers, with the aim of tracing the main themes of the artist’s career; his activity marked a new way of conceiving art itself, between the late 1940s and 1968.

It also inspired the most significant artistic languages born between the 1950s and today: among the artists who were inspired by him were Piero Manzoni, Agostino Bonalumi, Enrico Castellani, Alberto Biasi, Gianni Colombo, Mario Deluigi, Roberto Crippa, Gianni Dova, Giuseppe Santomaso, Ettore Spalletti, Sandro Martini and many others.

“Basis of the curatorial strategy, defined together with Leonardo Conti, is the identification and deepening of those thematic nuclei that Fontana placed along his creative parabola. It is precisely in such a clarification that the Master’s research shows itself, in many respects, as a real incipit of contemporary art, an inescapable place that, according to multiple declinations, has inspired some of the most important artistic languages that from the 1950s to the present,” said one of the curators, Giovanni Granzotto.

The exhibition intends to explore the lines of research and thematic nuclei, such as the spatialism of painting, holes, cuts, theaters, in which it is possible to recognize the long legacy of Lucio Fontana.

Hours: Thursday through Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 3 to 6 p.m.

Tickets: 5 euros.

Image: Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Attese, Oggi alle 3 ½ / mi sono arrabbiato [sic] (1966; watercolor on canvas, 73 x 60 cm)

Monfalcone will host a major exhibition dedicated to Fontana from December

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