Lucio Fontana/ Antony Gormley | Piazza San Marco, Venezia
Image (from left to right): Lucio Fontana, Ambiente spaziale, 1948, gouache on paper, (detail). Milano, Fondazione Lucio Fontana. Copyright: Fondazione Lucio Fontana by SIAE 2022 Antony Gormley, CHROMOSPHERE XI, 2019, Carbon and casein on paper, © the artist
Collateral Event promoted and realised by ASSOCIAZIONE ARTE CONTINUA APS, in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana and FAI - Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, with the support of GALLERIA CONTINUA San Gimignano, Beijing, Les Moulins, Habana, Roma, São Paulo, Paris, B17.
Two masters of sculpture, Lucio Fontana and Antony Gormley, will meet for the first time through a presentation of graphic works, works on paper and sculpture. The exhibition will take shape inside an extraordinary space: the Negozio Olivetti, property of Generali Assicurazioni and entrusted to the care and management of FAI, an architectural jewel completed in 1958 and nestled in the porticoes of Piazza San Marco in Venice and designed by Carlo Scarpa.
The exhibition has been conceived and curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, one of the world’s leading scholars of Lucio Fontana as well as a scientific consultant to the Foundation dedicated to the artist. The exhibition is built around a concise association of space and light to be found in the work of both sculptors. It will develop across a selection of drawings made by Fontana between 1946 and 1968 and a series of drawings, workbooks and models that run through all aspects of Antony Gormley's research, together with the presence of some sculptures by both of the artists.
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