Lucio Fontana Retrospective

Regarded as one of the greatest art visionaries of the 20th Century, Lucio Fontana has influenced several generations of artists, from Yves Klein to contemporary artists. For the first time since 1987, over 200 sculptures, paintings, ceramics, and installations offer a panoramic view of his atypical and eclectic artistic production. The chronology of the exhibition ranges from works from the late 1920s to the year of Fontana's death, in 1968, through several segments: primitive and abstract sculptures, designs, polychrome ceramics, special works and punctured canvases, among others. Organized in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, the exhibition is based on an evaluation of the diversity of his work, between abstraction and figuration, metaphysics and incarnation, utopia and kitsch, technological fascination and informal materials. According to Choghakate Kazarian, curator of the exhibition: "Some of the characteristics that define Fontana's work include the unrelenting exploration of new techniques, a curiosity that led him, among other things, to pioneer Spatialism—artistic current that proposes the simplification of form to reveal the actual space of the world—and approach with which the artist and his colleagues to rely on 'light and space' as the basis to achieve works linked to the surrounding world and to the conquest of space, a theme that obsessed the sculptor." The exhibition was inaugurated on April 24 and will remain open to the public until August 24, 2014.