{"id":37057,"date":"2016-09-09T15:32:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/?p=37057"},"modified":"2016-09-09T15:32:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T13:32:27","slug":"lucio-fontana-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/de\/article\/lucio-fontana-art\/","title":{"rendered":"How Lucio Fontana Changed Art History with a Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37913\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LUCIO-FONTANA-CONCETTO-SPAZIALE.jpg\" alt=\"lucio-fontana-concetto-spaziale\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1104\" \/> &#8220;Concetto Spaziale&#8221; (1962) by Lucio Fontana, courtesy Mazzoleni, copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLucio Fontana, the heavyweight of Italian art once claimed: \u201cMy discovery was the hole and that&#8217;s it. I am happy to go to the grave after such a discovery\u201d. Radical for the forties, his overtly masculine gesture of penetration became the framework of \u201cSpazialismo\u201d or the Spatialism movement that was initiated by Fontana and his contemporaries in 1947. His research drew on cutting edge scientific concepts which interpreted space, emptiness and infinity and are now the subject of the collaborative show \u201cFontana \/ Melotti: Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries\u201d at <a href=\"http:\/\/mazzoleniart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazzoleni<\/a>\u00a0in London.<br \/>\nFontana is lauded for forging new stylistic paths in Italian art theory, specifically sculpture. In a series of manifestos including the \u201cWhite Manifesto\u201d, spanning the 1940s and 50s, they asserted that matter should be infiltrated by energy to achieve dimensional, dynamic forms of expression. This was symbolised by hole-punched surfaces and sliced planes. In his series \u201cEnd of God\u201d, the ostentatious egg-shaped canvases ridicule the rigid conventions upheld by classical masters; quite literally bending, breaking and punching holes through the Italian canon.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-37914 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LUCIO-FONTANA-CONCETTO-SPAZIALE-ATTESA-2.jpeg\" alt=\"lucio-fontana-concetto-spaziale-attesa-2\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Left: &#8220;Concetto Spaziale&#8221;, Attese (1967), right: &#8220;Concetto Spaziale, Attesa&#8221; (1961) by Lucio Fontana, both courtesy Mazzoleni, copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFontana\u2019s much fabled \u201cConcetto spaziale\u201d (<em>Spatial Concepts<\/em>), began in 1949 with the \u201cbuchi,\u201d or <em>holes<\/em> series that comprised of a set of canvases lacerated with stigmata-like markings. Through the spatialist lens, these punctures transformed a two-dimensional form into a three-dimensional space. Fontana sought to dismantle, stretch and surpass the physical and metaphysical proportions of the canvas. The irreverent act freed his sculptures from a history concerned with weightiness. Spatialism also took its cue from the Italian Futurists\u2019 fixation on technology, where Fontana was conscious of the advancements that were rapidly changing the world around him, including: electronic communications, missile technology and nuclear energy. These influences have since evolved and forked into what we\u2019ve come to know as the environmental art, performance art and Arte Povera movements.<br \/>\nMazzoleni\u00a0now brings into view Fontana\u2019s fascination of the eternal and infinite in \u201cFontana \/ Melotti: Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries\u201d. Presented alongside his work, is his contemporary Fausto Melotti, who was a creative comrade until Fontana\u2019s death in 1968. The exhibition also includes a study of the invaluable pedagogy they received during their training in Milan from Adolfo Wildt, whose selected works also frame the show.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/LUCIO-FONTANA-CONCETTO-SPAZIALE-ATTESE-3-1494x1200.jpg\" alt=\"lucio-fontana-concetto-spaziale-attese-3\" width=\"1260\" height=\"1012\" \/> &#8220;Concetto Spaziale, Attese&#8221; (195) by Lucio Fontana, both courtesy Mazzoleni, copyright Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"size--small\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37199\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sleek-mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/New-Image-1.jpg\" alt=\"Left: Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale 1962, courtesy of Fondazione Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti, Untitled, 1976, courtesy of Archivio Fausto Melotti. Right: Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1967, courtesy of Fondazione Lucio Fontana. Fausto Melotti, Untitled, 1976, courtesy of Archivio Fausto Melotti\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/> Left: Lucio Fontana Concetto Spaziale 1962, courtesy of Fondazione Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti, Untitled, 1976, courtesy of Archivio Fausto Melotti. Right: Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale, Attese, 1967, courtesy of Fondazione Lucio Fontana. Fausto Melotti, I Maggio, 1971, courtesy of Archivio Fausto Melotti<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nLucio Fontana became more than an intense painter as his affinity\u00a0for the cosmic unity of space grew. Fontana\u2019s radical method could carve meaning out of emptiness. When Fontana physically slashed a material, it unearthed a new metaphysical and <em>actual<\/em> space underneath. In the artist\u2019s own words, \u201cI make holes, the infinite goes through them, light passes through them, there is no need to paint\u2026\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Fontana \/ Melotti: Angelic Spaces and Infinite Geometries&#8221; is on display at London&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mazzoleniart.com\/espositori\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mazzoleni<\/a> from 28 September until 18 November<\/strong> \n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nImages courtesy of\u00a0Mazzoleni<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My discovery was the hole and that&#8217;s it. 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