Lucio Fontana

BARBERO, Luca Massimo. LUCIO FONTANA 1946-1960. ZEICHEN UND ZEICHNUNGEN, Appenzell Ausst'publikation, Museum Liner 2009
Der in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Museo d'Arte Mendrisio und der Mailänder Fondazione Lucio Fontana konzipierte Katalog Lucio Fontana, 1946 ? 1960, Zeichen und Zeichnung stellt erstmals das zeichnerische, malerische und plastische Werk des Künstlers in einen übergreifenden konzeptuellen Zusammenhang. Die beiden Herausgeber Simone Soldini und Luca Massimo Barbero stellen die Arbeiten in den Kontext eines umfassenden ästhetischen Konzepts, das schlagwortartig mit Fontanas Wunsch nach der ?Eroberung einer neuen Dimension? umschrieben werden kann: Fontanas Concetto spaziale (die Vorstellung einer neu definierten Raumempfindung), deren Entwicklung gerade in der Zeichnung augenfällig wird, steht im Zentrum der Ausstellung. In der konzentrierten Auswahl der Werke aus dem so genannten Spätwerk (24 Leinwandarbeiten, darunter die Buchi, Löcher, und die Tagli, Schnitte, 8 plastischen Werken, 49 Arbeiten auf und mit Papier, und einer Rauminstallation, ergänzt um historisches Dokumentationsmaterial) wird der Künstler Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) als einer der Begründer einer raumbezogenen und performativen Kunst vorgestellt: einer Kunst, die Begrenzungen in den traditionellen Gattungen Malerei, Skulptur und Zeichnung öffnet und überwindet. Damit bereichert Fontana ? kunsthistorisch vor dem französischen Künstler Yves Klein oder den deutschen Künstlern des Zero ? die Kunst um eine ideelle, wenn nicht idealistische Komponente. The catalogue, published in collaboration with the Museo d?Arte Mendrisio with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana in Milano, places Lucio Fontana's (1899-1968) graphic, painted and plastique work for the first time in a comprehensive conceptual context. The precise selection of works from Fontana's late period (24 works on canvas, 8 plastiques, 49 works on paper, an installation, completed by historic documentations) presents the artist as a pioneer of space-oriented and performative art. German edition/ Text in deutscher Sprache. Neue.

Broschiert, kartonniert, 200 x 255mm., 172 S. mit 144 (84 farb.) Abbildungen. ISBN 9783906966144.

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Fontana, Lucio, [ Lucio Fontana, Anthony White ]: Lucio Fontana : Between Utopia and Kitsch, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2011 ISBN: 9780262015929
Painting, Sculpture, Biography

paper boards with dust jacket 23.5 x 18.3 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed "In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899-1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. One critic described the work as 'halfway between constructivism and costume jewelry,' unwittingly putting his finger on the contradiction at the heart of these paintings and much of Fontana's work: the cut canvases suggest avant-garde iconoclasm, but the glittery ornamentation evokes outmoded forms of kitsch. In Lucio Fontana, Anthony White examines a selection of the artist's work from the 1930s to the 1960s, arguing that Fontana attacked the idealism of twentieth-century art by marrying modernist aesthetics to industrialized mass culture, and attacked modernism's purity in a way that anticipated both pop art and postmodernism. Fontana painted expressionist and abstract sculptures in the pinks and golds of mass-produced knick-knacks, saturated architectural installations with fluorescent paint and ultraviolet light, and encrusted candy-colored monochrome canvases with glitter. In doing so, White argues, he challenged Clement Greenberg's dictum that avant-garde and kitsch are diametrically opposed. Relating Fontana's art to the political and social context in which he worked, White shows how Fontana used the materials and techniques of mass culture to comment on the fate of the avant-garde under Italian fascism and the postwar 'economic miracle.' At a time when Fontana's work is commanding record prices, this new interpretation of the work assures that it has unprecedented critical relevance." -- publisher's statement 324 pp. Fine. As issued.

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Fontana, Lucio [Ill.]. Im weissen Raum. Lucio Fontana - Yves Klein ; [Katalog zu der Ausstellung "Im Weissen Raum: Lucio Fontana - Yves Klein", die von den Krefelder Kunstmuseen vom 6. November 1994 bis zum 5. Februar 1995 in den Museen Haus Esters (Lucio Fontana) und Haus Lange (Yves Klein) gezeigt wird]. Krefeld, Stadt Krefeld, Oberstadtdirektor, 1994.

31 cm. 70, [84] S. : zahlr. Ill. OLwd. sehr gut. Zust.

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Lucio Fontana. 1999 Berkeley University of California Press ISBN: 0520226224

English text. Santa Monica, 1999; paperback, pp. 208, col. ill., cm 23x28. Lucio Fontana was one of the most influential and innovative figures of twentieth-century Italian art. From his earliest monumental sculptures and collaborations with architects in the 1930s to his spatial environments and slashed canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, Fontana's raw, vigorous, and richly expressive works overturned the conventions of art and challenged existing ideas about the role of the artist in the age of rapid technological development. Throughout his lifetime, Fontana was driven by the spirit of exploration, constantly questioning and extending the boundaries of his own practice, confounding expectations, and provoking and amazing an ever-growing audience. This opulently illustrated and beautifully produced book shows how Fontana redefined the possibilities for art, using a rich vocabulary of material, form, color, and space. Produced to accompany a retrospective exhibition marking the artist's centenary at the Hayward Gallery, this book spans Fontana's prolific career and brings together over 100 of his sculptures and canvases as well as a reconstruction of one of his most physically impressive and distilled spatial environments. An incisive critical essay by Sarah Whitfield provides a more thorough understanding of Fontana's life, influences, and artistic achievements, while excerpts from the artist's writings and interviews give readers a chance to hear his distinctive voice firsthand. An illustrated chronology of Fontana's life and career, an exhibition history, and an annotated bibliography make Lucio Fontana an even more valuable resource.

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