“The market has rediscovered and greatly appreciated the high quality of this Fontana series in recent years,” specialist Renato Pennisi, head of sales at Thinking Italian, told Télam, referring to this painter, ceramicist and sculptor, son of a father. Italian and Argentine mother.
This traditional auction moves to Paris which, during the days of the Paris+ par Art Basel fair -in its inaugural edition- various highlights of the city will present 20 site-specific works and interventions in emblematic settings, including the Louvre Museum and the Tuileries Garden.
“Thinking in Italian” -launched in London for the first time in 2000-, is now moving to Paris to coincide with the inauguration of the brand-new fair and to continue contributing to the recognition of art produced in Italy from the post-war period to the present day.
“Lucio Fontana was a prolific and extraordinary artist who worked in many different media through different series, such as sculptures, paintings, installations, decorative objects of art and design,” the specialist explained to this agency.
Fontana was born in Rosario and spent the first years of his life in Italy, he fought in the First World War, where he was awarded a medal of merit, he returned to Argentina to work as a sculptor with his father, then he returned to Milan and in 1940 he returned back to Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Paris sale will include a standout piece by the artist, “Terracotta [Concetto spaziale ]”, which Pennisi defined as “a beautiful example of his three-dimensional works, which added to the concept of traditional sculpture the aesthetic principles of spatialism already in the mid-1950s”.
Along with the artist from Rosario, the program includes a solid selection of works by Piero Manzoni and Alighiero Boetti, putting these pioneers in dialogue with artists such as Pierre Soulages, Niki de Saint Phalle, Fernand Léger and Yves Klein, an exhibition that can be visited from October 13 to 20, at the Parisian headquarters of Christie’s, whose auction will be held on October 20 at 5:00 p.m.
Fontana began in 1958 with the so-called series of slashes, consisting of holes or slashes on the canvas of his paintings, which draw the sign of what he himself calls “an art for the Space Age”.
His works are in the permanent collections of more than a hundred museums around the world. In his last years, Fontana moved to Comabbio, the town from which his family originated, where he died on September 7, 1968.
Source: Ambito
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