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Lucio Fontana
All things fall by necessity and bring about the requiremants of our time.
Lucio Fontana was born in 1899 in Rosario de Santa Fe (Argentina). His father was Italian. From 1914 to 1917, he studied to the School of the building in Milan. In 1917, he joined up the army. Injured, he was reformed in 1918. At the end of the war, he followed art studies to the Academy of Brera in Milan. In Argentina where he settled for few years, he created his first sculptures. He came back . . .
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Galleria il Quadro...
1982 Poster printed in screenprint, with punched holes, executed for the Galleria il Quadro, Biella. Editions Silvio Zamorani, Torino. Without
Galleria il Quadro...
1982 Poster printed in screenprint, with punched holes, executed for the Galleria il Quadro, Biella. Editions Silvio Zamorani, Torino. Without
Galleria il Quadro...
1982 Poster printed in screenprint, with punched holes, executed for the Galleria il Quadro, Biella. Editions Silvio Zamorani, Torino. Without
Studio G 30 Paris
1968 Screenprint with perforations, invitation for the « Fontana » opening au the Studio G 30 in Paris on May 9th 1968. This invitation, an extremely... Without
Concetto Spaziale
1968 Multiple, a vacuum-formed plastic object, unsigned, conceived for the book "Lucio Fontana". Ed. Achille Mauri, Milano. Sold without the book. Ruhé n°M 15
Invitation cards
1968 and 1970 Two invitation cards for two exhibitions "Lucio Fontana": the first one at Gallery Alexandre Iolas in 1968, the second at Gallery Beno d'Incelli in... Without
Galleria Apollinaire
1965 Poster offset, for the exhibition of the artist in the Gallery Apollinaire, Milano, signed by the artist. Without
Single work 
Concetto Spaziale IV
1944 Drawing. Ink on squared paper, signed and dated with ink in lower right by the artist. On verso of the frame stamped by the Gallery del Millione,... Waiting for the registration in the archives of the Lucio Fontana Foundation.
Untitled
1964 Original etching and aquatint, signed in white pencil by the artist. Ed. Gallery Milano, Milan. Ruhé N°E-23
Concetto spaziale...
Circa 1967 Original perforated poster, printed in serigrafic technique. Sergio Tosi Ed., Milan. Without
Single work 
Studies
Circa 1932 Drawing in the blue ink, signed "L. Fontana" by the artist. Archived by the Foundation Fontana
Concetto Spaziale II
1964 Original etching and embossing, perforation, signed in pencil by the artist. Ed. 2RC and Galleria Marlborough, Rome. Ruhé n°E-17
Single work 
Female portrait
Circa 1934 Drawing in ink, unsigned, with the "Galleria del Milione" (Milan) Archives stamped number on verso. Certificate of authenticity by the Lucio Fontana Foundation n°3688/4
Single work 
Studies for...
Circa 1934 Drawing in ink, unsigned, with the "Galleria del Milione" (Milan) Archives stamped number on verso. Certificate of authenticity by the Lucio Fontana Foundation n°3688/16
Single work 
Winged horses -...
Circa 1934 Drawing in ink, unsigned, with the "Galleria del Milione" (Milan) Archives stamped number on verso. Certificate of authenticity by the Lucio Fontana Foundation n°3688/14
Single work 
Seating woman
Circa 1934 Drawing in ink, unsigned, with the "Galleria del Milione" (Milan) Archives stamped number on verso. Certificate of authenticity by the Lucio Fontana Foundation n°3688/10
Single work 
Woman's head
Circa 1934 Drawing in ink, unsigned, with the "Galleria del Milione" (Milan) Archives stamped number on verso. Certificate of authenticity by the Lucio Fontana Foundation n°3688/8
Alexandre Iolas...
1966 Rare and gorgious small catalogue, published by Sergio Tosi for the Alexandre Iolas Gallery (Paris). Four compositions in colors realized on cut-outs... Ruhé p. 195
Portrait of Antonin...
1968 Book-object, de luxe edition, including a resin sculpture signed and numbered on the base (for the original box of edition) with a flap on each face,... Ruhé n°M-14
Concetto Spaziale,...
1968 Multiple in moulded plastic, unsigned, unnumbered, extracted from the book "Lucio Fontana" published by Achille Mauri, Milan. Ruhé n° M-15, p. 165
Single work 
Concetto Spaziale,...
1961 Sculpture, original ceramic, pink earth oxidized in black, signed "Lucio Fontana" on the side. Certificate of authenticity of the Foundation Lucio Fontana on standby.
L'épée dans l'eau
1962 Original etching, aquaforte, signed in pencil, extracted from the book "L'épée dans l'eau" by Alain Jouffroy. Ed. Galerie Schwarz, Milan. Ruhe n° E7
Concetto Spaziale
Date unknown Original etching, aquaforte, signed in pencil. Unknown
Poster for Alex...
1966 Poster printed in serigraphy and collage. C.R. Ruhé p. 188Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
Catalogue(s) raisonné(s)
*« Lucio Fontana : les peintures, sculptures et environnements spaciaux », 2 Vol., E. Cripoliti & J. Van der Marck, Ed. La Connaissance, Bruxelles, 1974 et 1986
*« Graphics, multiples and more
», H. Ruhé et C. Rigo, Ed. Tuja books, Amsterdam, 2006
*« Works on paper », Luca Massimo Barbero, 3 vol., Ed. Skira, 2014
Bibliographic track & more
To read about the artist :
- « Lucio Fontana », MNAM, Paris, 1987
- « L. F. : une vie d’artiste », G. Joppolo, Images en Manoeuvres, Marseille, 1992
- « Lucio Fontana : entre materia y espacio », Fondation « La Caixa », 1998
- « Centenario de Lucio Fontana », Charta, Milan, 1999
- « Fontana », Barbara Hess, Petite collection Art, Ed. Taschen, 2006
- « Fontana e Parigi », Enrico Crispolti, Tomabuoni Art Ed. Forma, 2012
- « L. F. - Rétrospective », coll., cat., MAM de la ville de Paris, Ed. Paris Musées, 2014
- « Lucio Fontana», J. Lavrador, O. Meesse, in revue Beaux-Arts Magazine, 2014
- « L. F. : Between utopia and Kitsch », A. White, Ed. MIT Press, 2014
- « L. F. - Le spacialisme : l'aventure d'un …. », G. Joppolo, Ed. L'Harmattan, 2017
To read from the artist :
- « Idee di Lucio Fontana » In Domus n° 271, Milan, 1952
- « Ecrits », Ed. Les Presses du réel, Dijon, 2013
Website :
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Stamp by Lucio Fontana
The publication of a postal stamp is often a homage paid by a nation to a place, an event, a remarkable cause or a character which count. The painters and other artists do not escape from this rule. Some are however "forgotten" of postal art. Here, gathered below (French or foreign), emitted stamps (206) or simple studies of stamp (224) in homage to the artists represented on our website. The first French stamp was emitted in 1849, England preceded us by ten years. There is often a share of voyage in this small form of shape paper. The stamp circulates, sails, flies away, it makes dream, then dream a little. M.C.
When the stamp is really emitted, the artist name is preceded of an asterisk (*). It is certain that we do not know each stamp emitted for such or such artist; do not hesitate with us to make known them!
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A tribute to Lucio Fontana
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Le père du spacialisme Lucio Fontana, d’origine argentine, s’en est allé à Varèse (Italie) le 7 septembre 1968 ; né en 1899, il n’avait pas encore 70 ans. Il sera inhumé quelques jours plus tard au cimetière « Monumentale » de Milan. En son hommage, avec respect, nous déposons cette rose.
"Etabli comme sculpteur à ses débuts, Fontana a atténué la frontière entre la peinture et la sculpture en créant des travaux qui ont combiné à la fois forme et couleur dans un contexte spatial défini." - Barbara Hess
"Quand il taille ses toiles il introduit le relief et place l’œuvre dans une troisième dimension. Ainsi l’espace du spectateur et celui de l’œuvre sont les mêmes, ce qui permet d’abolir la distance entre le regardant et l’œuvre artistique." - Paulo Herkenhoff
"Le tableau n’est plus un tableau, c’est une idée que j’ai mise dans la matière. Je ne désire pas faire une peinture : Je souhaite ouvrir un espace . . . Je fais un trou dans la toile et l'infini le traverse. " - Lucio Fontana
"Aujourd'hui c'est plus facile pour les jeunes artistes, ne pensez-vous pas? Mais à l'époque, on dédaigné un homme qui faisait des trous dans sa toile, c'était un idiot, un fou." - Lucio Fontana
"Lucio Fontana a célébré le geste, mais aussi le milieu ambiant, l'environnement, pour finir par exalter le silence de la surface alors même qu'il entendait la lacérer et se dégager ainsi des limites des deux dimensions. " - Guido Ballo
"Un an après sa mort, en 1969, un homme marchait sur la lune, cette lune inaccessible que, selon certains critiques, Lucio Fontana aurait touchée du doigt. " - Giovani Joppolo
Mouvements de l'art
- + SPACIALISM / 1938-1968 / Beniamino Joppolo, Antonino Tullier, etc.
- + NEW REALITIES / 1946-1956 / Etienne Béothy, Marcelle Cahn, etc.
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