Lucio Fontana | Hauser & Wirth Presents "Walking the Space: Spatial Environments"
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The first comprehensive presentation of _Lucio Fontana, Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948 - 1968_ opens today at Arts District blue chip, Hauser & Wirth. This will stand as an American introduction to the work of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking “Ambienti Spaziali’ (Spatial Environments).
Fontana, a visionary conceived his first environment in 1948, inspiring the immersive conceptual and spatial achievements of such defining figures as Piero Manzoni, Yayoi Kasama and James Turrell. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, this landmark exhibition will highlight Fontana’s critical contribution to the evolution of conceptual art and the junction of art, science and technology as a means to explore aspects of human perceptual experience.
Arranged in chronological order, the exhibition will feature nine of Fontana’s environments from the span of two decades. Each has been reincarnated through rigorous research by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana’s archives, an institution dedicated to studying and documenting the artist’s career. The Los Angeles exhibition presents meticulous reconstructions of the original Spatial Environments which were historically dismantled and destroyed at the close of the exhibition. Together, the momentary works reveal the artist’s revolutionary approach to art-making as a pursuit to ‘open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture.’
_Walking the Space_ is the first of a trilogy of exhibitions that Hauser & Wirth is presenting in a collaboration with the Fontana Foundation and Luca Massimo Barbero, leading Fontana scholar and Director of the Insitute of Art History. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new book published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, as well as an archival presentation of related collectibles and drawings to provide an educational context for the art on view.
The first comprehensive presentation of _Lucio Fontana, Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948 - 1968_ opens today at Arts District blue chip, Hauser & Wirth. This will stand as an American introduction to the work of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking “Ambienti Spaziali’ (Spatial Environments).
Fontana, a visionary conceived his first environment in 1948, inspiring the immersive conceptual and spatial achievements of such defining figures as Piero Manzoni, Yayoi Kasama and James Turrell. Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, this landmark exhibition will highlight Fontana’s critical contribution to the evolution of conceptual art and the junction of art, science and technology as a means to explore aspects of human perceptual experience.
Arranged in chronological order, the exhibition will feature nine of Fontana’s environments from the span of two decades. Each has been reincarnated through rigorous research by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana’s archives, an institution dedicated to studying and documenting the artist’s career. The Los Angeles exhibition presents meticulous reconstructions of the original Spatial Environments which were historically dismantled and destroyed at the close of the exhibition. Together, the momentary works reveal the artist’s revolutionary approach to art-making as a pursuit to ‘open up space, create a new dimension, tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture.’
_Walking the Space_ is the first of a trilogy of exhibitions that Hauser & Wirth is presenting in a collaboration with the Fontana Foundation and Luca Massimo Barbero, leading Fontana scholar and Director of the Insitute of Art History. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new book published by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, as well as an archival presentation of related collectibles and drawings to provide an educational context for the art on view.
