November 2020, 10 Uhr – 18 Uhr. The beauty of chance and accident, evident from the start in Fontana’s use of ceramics, becomes a strong current in much of the artist’s later work, and some of his first Concetti Spaziale were realized in clay before canvas. Lucio Fontana, “Crocifisso” (1950–55), polychrome ceramics, 14 1/4 x 7 2/3 x 4 3/4 in (© Fondazione Lucio Fontana, by SIAE 2017, courtesy Galerie … This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan under no. Towards the end of the 1920s, he went back to Italy to study at the Accademia di Brera, as a student of sculptor Adolfo Wildt, for two years. Born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana lived in Milan from the 1920s onwards, setting up his studio there. A total of about forty pieces are being shown in the context of Fontana’s avant garde oeuvre, including ceramic sculptures and so called Concetti spaziali (“spatial concepts”) as well as works on paper known as Ambienti spaziali. Lucio Fontana was one such artist. GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE COLOGNE Drususgasse 1-5 50667 Cologne Germany Google Maps +49 (0)221 257 10 12 info@galerie-karsten-greve.de Tuesday – Friday 10 am – 6.30 pm Saturday 10 am – 6 pm Visits are possible by individual appointment. LUCIO FONTANA – CERAMIC WORKS With his spatial concepts and his redefinition of specific materials and dimensions, Argentinian-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is one of the most distinctive and popular artist personalities of post-war modernism. In 1947, Lucio Fontana returned to Milan, where he founded the „Movimento spaziale“ group of artists, published two manifestos of Spazialismo, and went on to become one of the most distinguished avant-garde artists of the first post-war generation. LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics is the eighth one-man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. The AAM’s exhibitions and programming are, Yoga & Mindfulness for Teens: Empowerment, Admission to the AAM is free courtesy of Amy and John Phelan. While ostensibly figurative, with subject matter as varied as battle scenes and flowers, these expressive works gain a raw immediacy from Fontana’s vigorous hand modeling as the clay becomes a register of the artist’s process. Lucio Fontana: Ceramics Installation view, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, 2020. This direct, forceful manipulation of the purity of the surface also prefigures the violence of the Concetti Spaziale. Ceramics painted with glaze colors dominated from 1936 when Fontana returned to figurative sculpture. LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics is the eighth one-man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. Opening on Wednesday, November 18, 2020, 10 am - 6.30 pm extended until February 20, 2021Book individual appointment, © Nicolas Brasseur and Galerie Karsten Greve, Lucio Fontana: La mia ceramica, in Tempo, Milan, September 21,1939. Ceramics Some modernist and contemporary artists, such as Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana, Nanni Valentini, Laura Letinsky, and Renato Bassoli, have approached ceramics from the full realm of art and created ceramic sculptures without regard to their functionality. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism . GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE PARIS 5, rue Debelleyme 75003 Paris France Google Maps +33 (0)1 42 77 19 37 info@galerie-karsten-greve.fr Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm. The trilogy of Fontana exhibitions will be presented in Los Angeles, New York, and Hong Kong, each with a specific area of focus. Lucio Fontana Ceramics is the eighth one man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. CCI and its activities are made possible through an annual appropriation from the Colorado General Assembly and federal funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. Beginning in the 1930s, Fontana produced a body of baroque ceramic work in which he engaged the problems of both painting and sculpture in innovative and productive new ways. Over the course of his artistic career, Lucio Fontana created a rich variety of works ranging from ceramic carvings to paintings and from sculptures to spatial environments. Courtesy of Galerie Karsten Greve. The series of polychrome ceramic sculptures that Lucio Fontana made in that period include two popular figures from the Italian Commedia dell’arte, Arlecchino and Colombina, terracotta sculptures that almost dissolve in their terpsichorean representation of movement. Photo: Christopher Clem Franken. The Twenties and Thirties Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present a solo exhibition featuring ceramics and works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. We are available by phone and email for for orders and pickups at any time. Lucio Fontana, Frammento di specchiera con testina (1955) Il Ponte writes: “In the early ‘30s, Lucio Fontana experimented with this material, ceramic, which is the best means to exalt the space-color-form nexus and the need for a physical and material relationship with the natural world. From 1939, he lived in Argentina again, and, after settling in Buenos Aires in 1940, Fontana became a teacher at the Altamira art school. Comprising work from the 1940s through the 1960s, Lucio Fontana: Ceramics was the first American museum exhibition dedicated solely to the artist’s groundbreaking ceramic work. Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics. His ceramics were an important part of his oeuvre and allowed him to … It will be included in the forthcoming Catalogue Raisonné of the works in terracotta and ceramics which is currently being compiled by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana. The presentation at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in February 2020 will comprise Fontana’s Ambienti; the exhibition in New York in spring 2021 will explore his ceramics and sculptures; then a major survey will be staged at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong in fall 2021. Lucio Fontana, "Spatial Design" Painting, circa 1968, Italy, circa 1968 Lucio Fontana, Big Photography, Italy, circa 1962 Selection of Modernist Ceramic Plaques Osvaldo Borsani Unique Piece Reversed Painted Glass Table, ABV 1950 Italy If you love avant-garde art, you should definitely visit the solo exhibition Lucio Fontana: Ceramics at Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne. The Argentine-Italian artist is widely known for his Cuts series, slashed paintings that became symbols of … Closed. He died in Comabbio (Varese) in 1968. General operating support is provided by Colorado Creative Industries. Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 6.30 pm Saturday 10 am - 6 pm. GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE ST. MORITZ Via Maistra 4 7500 St. Moritz Switzerland Google Maps +41 (0)81 834 90 34 info@galerie-karsten-greve.ch In accordance with recent government guidance, the gallery is temporarily closed from 18 January – 28 February. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society. On Lucio Fontana's little-known engagement with ceramics. As the name suggests, the art exhibition features an exquisite selection of ceramics by the Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana, as well as his famous Concetti spaziali (“spatial concepts”) and important works on paper known as Ambienti spaziali. Figure Nere (Black Figures) Figure Nere is an example of Fontana's early ceramic sculpture, featuring a rough-hewn, rectangular terra-cotta slab with two black silhouetted figures, a taller one behind a shorter figure in the front. PRESS RELEASE Galerie Karsten Greve is pleased to present Ceramics, an exhibition on the ceramic works of avant gardist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968). “I am a sculptor, not a ceramicist,” Lucio Fontana declared (more than once) in his writings. Since 1977, Galerie Karsten Greve has represented the Argentinian-Italian avant-garde artist, who spent his whole life focusing on sculpture and searching for a new dimension, and dedicated comprehensive exhibitions and four catalogues to his work. Works Press Release Texts Press Release Texts Introduction by Richard Tuttle with "The Last Interview given by Fontana" and recorded by Tommaso Trini on July 19, 1968. ; 12 Colour; (1 Fold-Out) + Portrait of the Artist; 4to; 17 pp This first major survey of Lucio Fontana in the United States in more than forty years reexamines his career. Born in Rosario, in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1899, to Italian immigrant parents, Lucio Fontana spent the first years of his life in Milan, enrolling at a school of engineering in 1914. Installation view, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, 2020. During a session at the porcelain factory of Sèvres near Paris in 1937, he created heads, figures, animals, and still lifes characterized by expressive dynamics, specifically textured surfaces, and opalescent colors. November 2020 – Samstag, 20. For more information on how you can join the AAM, please visit the Street Level Visitor Information Desk, inquire in the Shop, or call 970.925.8050. These ceramics are particularly fascinating as they allow Fontana’s spatial concept to be experienced in a sensual manner. By Paolo Campiglio. A total of about fourty pieces will be shown in the context of Fontana’s avant-garde oeuvre, including ceramic sculptures and so-called Concetti spaziali (“spatial concepts”) as well as works on paper known as Ambienti spaziali . Februar 2021 Vernissage: Mittwoch, 18. Known for his iconic Concetto spaziale paintings, in which he disrupted the sanctity of the painted surface by cutting or punching holes, Lucio Fontana worked in a variety of media throughout his career. Although best known for his Concetti Spaziale—the spatial environments and slashed canvases he created in the 1950s and 1960s—clay modeling and ceramics have always been central to his process. Returning to Argentina in 1922, he worked in his father's sculpture studio before opening one of his own in 1924. Lucio Fontana On the Threshold. Given the sculptural properties of his famous slashed canvases, it is perhaps little wonder that Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) began his career as a sculptor. Lucio Fontana (Italian: ... Fontana had found his studio and works completely destroyed in the Allied bombings of Milan, but soon resumed his ceramics works in Albisola. The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. January 23–April 14, 2019 Met Breuer and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York www.metmuseum.org. From Il Ponte, Lucio Fontana, Madonna col Bambino (1950 -53), Polychrome glazed ceramic, 35 × 19 × 10 cm Exceptional Ceramics from Leoncillo to Lucio Fontana Launch Slideshow Showcasing the best of cross-disciplinary art in Italy, Sotheby's Arte Contemporanea sale in Milan on 11 April kicks off with a carefully curated selection of post-war 20th-century Italian ceramics from the Hockemeyer Collection. Lucio Fontana: Ceramics spotlights work from just after World War II, and into that new reality Fontana introduced a new kind of art – an integration of abstraction and representation, the treatment of ceramics as modernist sculpture, and clay pieces that left the artist’s touch visible on the finished product. During this period, he worked on the Manifiesto Blanco, in which he called for a synthesis of the arts and the abolition of conventional materials, propagating the dimensions of time and movement in space instead. 424/1 and it is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity (dated 19.05.1970). The appropriation of space based on expressive, dynamic gestures manifests itself in the upward movement of the figures in the group of works known as Crocifissi (Crucifixes) and Crocifissioni (Crucifixions). 18.11.20 - 20.02.21 Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne. PRESS RELEASE Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present a solo exhibition featuring ceramics and works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. Lucio Fontana Concetto spaziale (Spatial Concept) Vase, 1953 Terracotta, hight 50 x 30 cm Colection of Luigi Grampa, Busto Arsizio. Comprising work from the 1940s through the 1960s, Lucio Fontana: Ceramics was the first American museum exhibition dedicated solely to the artist’s groundbreaking ceramic work. The exhibition provided the unique opportunity to reexamine the entire career of this seminal artist through work that, though vitally important to his working methods and pivotal in his trajectory as an artist, has never been accorded the importance it deserves and has rarely been exhibited in the United States. LUCIO FONTANA, CAROLINE ACHAINTRE, IVAN SEAL A Conversation about Ceramics. Flash ArtModern SculptureContemporary … You can also read the blog on Fontana and two videos are posted below. From this time forth, the artist was to refer to his works by the title of Concetto spaziale. Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present the solo exhibition LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics featuring an exquisite selection of ceramics and important works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. Since the 1930s, Lucio Fontana’s works have regularly been presented in international solo and group exhibitions, including at the XXIV Biennale di Venezia (1948), documenta II (1959) and documenta IV (1968), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1987), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (1996/97), Hayward Gallery, London (1999-2000), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2019), Galleria Borghese, Rome (2019), and the Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2019/20); his works are part of the public collections of international institutions such as The Art Institute of Chicago, United States, Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Tate Modern in London, Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, or The National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Photo: Christopher Clem Franken. Diese Webseite unterstützt den Internet Explorer 11 nicht. Exhibition Catalogue "Lucio Fontana" at Sperone Westwater, New York, 16 Feb - 1 April, 2000. The surface of the sculpture reveals the artist's hand, with visible marks indicating the development of the form. The Contemporary Art Auction at Dorotheum (Vienna, November 25, 2015) includes a group of exceptional ceramic works by the Italian modern master, Lucio Fontana who has been setting a hot pace in the resale market for the last five years. What follows are the scholarly entries in the auction house’s catalog. A total of about fourty pieces will be shown in the context of Fontana’s avant-garde oeuvre, including ceramic sculptures and so-called Concetti spaziali (“spatial concepts”) as well as works on paper known as Ambienti spaziali. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society. May 12 - September 24, 2016, Milano. Lucio Fontana Foundation - Ceramics "Le Ceramiche - Ceramics (1949-1968)" This cycle includes ceramic and clay works produced after 1949 that have a specifically decorative or home-furnishing purpose (items such as plates, vases, small sculptures, handles and so on). The first major survey of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) in the United States in more than forty years, this exhibition reexamines the career of one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. Lucio Fontana, Crocifisso (1950–1955). Drususgasse 1-5 Cologne, 50667, Germany Mittwoch, 18. As evidenced by the bulging of the draped loincloth of Christ and the sweeping folds of the robe, Lucio Fontana processed the clay with a view to spatial expansion in a baroque style. Edited by Paolo Bonacina. Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961. In Milan, he collaborated with noted Milanese architects to decorate several new buildings that were part of the effort to reconstruct the city after the war. In Lucio Fontana’s early years, during various sessions in the famous ceramics workshops in Albisola in 1934 and 1936, the artist created remarkable sculptures inspired by natural forms such as Coccodrillo (Crocodile), and more amorphous pieces including Conchiglia e Polpo (Sea shell and octopus)or Farfalla e Conchiglia (Butterfly and sea shell). Rare pair of ceramic door handles designed by artist Lucio Fontana and manufactured by Gabbianelli Ceramiche D’arte in 1946. Published by Skira. The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue featuring texts by Heidi Zuckerman, Paolo Campiglio, Lucio Fontana, and Jan van der Marck. One of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century, Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) continually challenged the boundaries of art making and the role of the artist, using a rich vocabulary of material, form, and action. The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. Having returned to Italy in 1947, Fontana created his first works corresponding to his new conception of space as put into words for the first time in his theoretical treatise, Manifiesto Blanco. Ceramics Inspiration - Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana Concetto spaziale (Spatial Concept) Vase, 1953 Terracotta, hight 50 x 28 cm Collection of A. Minola, Turin. Immaterial: Lucio Fontana Ceramics. 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