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Lucio Fontana : between utopia and kitsch

Through an innovative use of modern lighting technology these 'environments' engaged with both the architectural and phenomenological dimensions of space. While returning to the project of a synthesis of the arts in such installations, in his choice of materials such as fluorescent paint and neon light, Fontana also demonstrated the medium's closeness to the commodity spectacle ushered in by the post-WWII economic boom. Faced with the difficulties of realizing art's integration with space, in his later career Fontana returned to the autonomous art work by taking up easel painting. However, by puncturing the canvas and through the application of kitsch colors, he continued to demonstrate the need to demolish and go beyond the art object. Moreover, by literally opening his paintings with a gesture that marked the author's absence, Fontana focused on the profoundly visceral relationship between his work and the viewer's physical body.

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  • ""In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics. Fontana (1899-1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed and punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. One critic described the work as "halfway between constructivism and costume jewelry," unwittingly putting his finger on the contradiction at the heart of these paintings and much of Fontana's work: the cut canvases suggest avant-garde iconoclasm, but the glittery ornamentation evokes outmoded forms of kitsch. In Lucio Fontana, Anthony White examines a selection of the artist's work from the 1930s to the 1960s, arguing that Fontana attacked the idealism of twentieth-century art by marrying modernist aesthetics to industrialized mass culture, and attacked modernism's purity in a way that anticipated both pop art and postmodernism."
  • "Through an innovative use of modern lighting technology these 'environments' engaged with both the architectural and phenomenological dimensions of space. While returning to the project of a synthesis of the arts in such installations, in his choice of materials such as fluorescent paint and neon light, Fontana also demonstrated the medium's closeness to the commodity spectacle ushered in by the post-WWII economic boom. Faced with the difficulties of realizing art's integration with space, in his later career Fontana returned to the autonomous art work by taking up easel painting. However, by puncturing the canvas and through the application of kitsch colors, he continued to demonstrate the need to demolish and go beyond the art object. Moreover, by literally opening his paintings with a gesture that marked the author's absence, Fontana focused on the profoundly visceral relationship between his work and the viewer's physical body."@en
  • "This study examines the intersection between modernism and mass culture in the art work of Lucio Fontana (1899-1968). The protean nature of art, is interpreted as a critical response to the fraught condition of 20 th century artistic avant-gardes. In the early 1930s Fontana attacked the idealism of traditional figurative sculpture through an irreverent use of color. Engaged in modernist debates sculptures that were visually integrated with the architectural wall. However, a similar repudiation of the autonomous art object lay behind the employment the question of the art work's connection to its environment through polychrome decorative ceramics. By prostrating his sculptures on the ground, and employing light-reflective glazes, Fontana emphasized the material basis of his work while continuing to stress its relationship to the physical surroundings. After the war, Fontana produced several large-scale installation works."@en

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