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Lucio Fontana
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Argentine/Italian
, 1899–1968)
Lucio Fontana
Battaglia,
1950
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Biography
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Timeline
1899
Born in Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina
1905
Moved to Milan
1914 - 1915
Studied at the School of Architecture at the Technical Institute Carlo Cattaneo, Milan, Italy
1928 - 1930
Studied at the Academia di Bella Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy
1934
Joined the Paris group of artists 'Abstraction-Création', and set up their Milan section
1940 - 1946
Moved back and forth between Italy and Argentina
1942 - 1946
First Prize of Sculpture at the XXXII National Salon of Fine Arts
1946
Founded the Academia de Altamira, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1968
Died in Comabbio, Italy
Exhibitions
2013
[school of] Lucie Fontaine, Artport, Tel Aviv
I ♥ Lucie, Various Small Fires / The Company, Los Angeles
i-n-v-e-n-t-o-r-y, Galeria Sabot, Cluj-Napoca
Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL
Il Senso e le Forme - Da Chadwick a Bonalumi - Galleria Blu, Milan
The 60s In The Guggenheim Collections. From Informel To Pop Art - Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
2012
Les Associations Libres, La Maison Rouge, Paris
The Suburbans, The Suburban, Chicago
Estate, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Yoko Ono : Search for the Fountain, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
My Lee Lozano and other works, Liste, Basel (under the auspice of Galeria Sabot)
Playing Dice Would be Nice, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Claire Fontaine & Lucie Fontaine : Exceptions, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee
Body of Work, Iaspis, Stockholm
Souvenirs, Gum Studio, Turin
2011
Domesticity II, Pulse, Miami
Black Magic, Artissima, Turin (under the auspice of Fruit and Flower Deli)
t-a-l-i-s-m-a-n-i-c, Fruit and Flower Deli, Stockholm
Domesticity I, Prague Biennale 5
Motion of Nation, VM21, Rome
2010
Modern Times: responding to chaos - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
2009
Lucio Fontana. Le scritture del disegno - Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan (solo)
Lucio Fontana - Zeichen und Zeichnung - Museum Liner, Appenzell, Switzerland (solo)
2008
Lucio Fontana, Scultore, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (solo)
Lucio Fontana: Paintings, Sculptures, Works on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK (solo)
2007
Via Crucis - Lucio Fontana, Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lucio Fontana Sculptor, Castello di San Giorgio, Torino, Italy (solo)
Living, Looking, Making: Sculpture by Giacometti, Fontana, Twombly, Serra, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
2006
Lucio Fontana, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY (solo)
Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York”, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy (solo)
Lucio Fontana: Alle Radici Dello Spazialismo, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, New York, NY (solo)
Lucio Fontana: Alle Radici Dello Spazialismo, Italian Cultural Institute, New York, NY (solo)
Lucio Fontana, Harry Ruhe / Galerie A, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
2005
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
Lucio Fontana, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland (solo)
2002
De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Lucio Fontana, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY (solo)
Lucio Fontana, 11 Duke Street Limited, London, UK (solo)
1999 - 2000
Lucio Fontana, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Minimalia: An Italian Version in 20th Century Art, P.S. 1, New York, NY
1999
Lucio Fontana,'Stasera inauguro la mia mostra da Palazzoli', Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
1998 - 1999
Gold: Gothic Masters and Lucio Fontana, Compagnia Di Belle Arti (& other locations) Milan, Italy
1998
Lucio Fontana, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (solo)
Lucio Fontana. Entre Materia y Espacio, La Fundación 'la Caixa' in collaboration with the Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain (solo)
1996 - 1997
Lucio Fontana: Retrospektive, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria (solo)
1987
Lucio Fontana, Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondation Caixa de Pensions in Barcelona, Spain
Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1977
Lucio Fontana Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY (solo)
1966
Retrospective, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands
1959
V. Bienal Sao Paulo, Brazil
1930
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Galleria del Milione, Milan, Italy (solo)
1926
Nexus, Rosario de Santa Fe, Argentina
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Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York , NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Calderara Foundation Collection, Milan, Italy
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Literature
2004
Lucio Fontana. Burgdorf, Switzerland: Museum Franz Gertsch (catalogue)
2000
Tuttle, Richard. Lucio Fontana. New York: Sperone Westwate, 2000 (catalogue)
1999
Enrico Crispolti (ed.). Fontana. Milan, Italy: Edizioni Charta, 1999 (catalogue)
1998
Lucio Fontana. Entre Materia y Espacio. Madrid, Spain: La Fundación 'la Caixa' ; Museo National Cantro de Arte Reina Sofía, 1998 (catalogue)
1997
Lucio Fontana. Retrospektive. Ludwig, Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stifung , 1997 (catalogue)