Afro Burri Fontana

New York City

The exhibition Afro Burri Fontana highlights the remarkable influence these three Italian artists had on the evolution of the history of art after the Second World War. The exhibition focuses on the experimentation of each artist from 1950-1968, during the height of post-war Italy’s cultural flourishing.

It was during this period that a small group of artists including Afro, Burri and Fontana sought to create a new type of visual vocabulary anchored in an intense cross cultural exchange with the United States. Because of that dialogue, each artist in the exhibition has works held in the permanent collections of major American museums. With this exhibition, Elena Geuna, independent curator and advisor, who was also responsible for Jeff Koons – Versailles in 2008 and Lucio Fontana: Light and Color at the Palazzo Ducale, intends to illustrate „the extraordinary poetry and innovation of the works by these three artists. I am honored to present once again masterpieces of Italian art abroad”.

Haunch of Venison

March 8th – May 12th, 2012
550 West 21st Street
New York, NY10011
USA

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