Lucio Fontana

New York City

Gagosian Gallery currently presents a major and unprecedented survey of the work of Lucio Fontana. Six of his groundbreaking environments, known as Ambienti Spaziali, have been faithfully reconstructed, providing a completely new perspective for the rich and varied retrospective of more than one hundred major works that surrounds them.

Fontana’s fascination for the advancements of science and technology during the twentieth century led him to approach art as a series of investigations into a wide variety of mediums and methods. As a sculptor, he experimented with stone, metals, ceramics, and neon; as a painter he attempted to transcend the confines of the two-dimensional plane. In a series of manifestos, beginning with the „Manifesto blanco (White Manifesto)“ of 1946, Fontana announced his goals for a „spatialist“ art, one that could engage technology to achieve an expression of the fourth dimension in a radical new aesthetic idiom that melded the categories of architecture, sculpture, and painting.

Gagosian

May 3rd – June 30th, 2012
555 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
USA

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