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Lucio Fontana

(Argentine/Italian, 1899–1968)

Lucio Fontana

Concetto Spaziale, 1960

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Biography

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

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)

Lucio Fontana

(Argentine/Italian, 1899–1968)

Lucio Fontana

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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