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. Februar 2021 Vernissage: Mittwoch, 18. November 2020, 10 Uhr – 18 Uhr. Exhibition Catalogue "Lucio Fontana" at Sperone Westwater, New York, 16 Feb - 1 April, 2000. 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. 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. Closed. Born in Argentina, Lucio Fontana lived in Milan from the 1920s onwards, setting up his studio there. Lucio Fontana Ceramics is the eighth one man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan under no. LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics is the eighth one-man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 6.30 pm Saturday 10 am - 6 pm. 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. The Twenties and Thirties He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism . 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. Edited by Paolo Bonacina. 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. 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. The Aspen Art Museum is a non-collecting institution presenting the newest, most important evolutions in international contemporary art. This direct, forceful manipulation of the purity of the surface also prefigures the violence of the Concetti Spaziale. 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. Installation view, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, 2020. Rare pair of ceramic door handles designed by artist Lucio Fontana and manufactured by Gabbianelli Ceramiche D’arte in 1946. If you love avant-garde art, you should definitely visit the solo exhibition Lucio Fontana: Ceramics at Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne. 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. He died in Comabbio (Varese) in 1968. January 23–April 14, 2019 Met Breuer and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York www.metmuseum.org. 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. Lucio Fontana On the Threshold. 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. 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. 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. These ceramics are particularly fascinating as they allow Fontana’s spatial concept to be experienced in a sensual manner. 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