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FONTANA Lucio, Study for sculpture, 1957, gouache, ink on paper, 30x23 cm. Signed and dated lower right. Authentic Foundation Fontana. For information CONTACT US
Lucio Fontana (Rosario, 1899 - Comabbio 1968).
Since the 40, breaking the canvas with holes and cuts, passed the traditional distinction between painting and sculpture. Space stopped being represented according to the conventional rules of perspective. The surface of the canvas itself, stopping in reliefs and recesses came into direct contact with the real space and light. His monochrome paintings, often spray-painted, stamped with the mark of precise gestures, confident artist, who left the brushes, wielding razor blades. Everything is played in the shadows, especially in the raking light emphasizes the solutions of continuity. Argentina where he lived until six years and returned during the Second World War, Fountain came to his poetic pondering the lessons of the Baroque, in which, as he wrote the figures seem to abandon the plan and continue in space. Motion spatialist he was the founder and most famous representative, said at the international level soon. As openly provocative gestures to be understood that some of his monochrome canvases, such as holes and cuts, shocked the audience for the ease with which you can belittling [1]. Many were in fact the counterfeiters, but few with a mark as safe. Fontana, to protect itself, he wrote on the back of each canvas phrases meaningless, mere pretext for a handwriting expert. His wife Teresita Rasin, in 1982, gave birth to the Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
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