Lucio Fontana. Ambienti/Environments
From 20 Settembre 2017 to 25 Febbraio 2018
Milan
Place: Pirelli HangarBicocca
Address: via Chiese 2
Times: Thursday to Sunday 10am-10pm
Responsibles: Marina Pugliese, Barbara Ferriani, Vicente Todolí
Ticket price: free entrance
Telefono per informazioni: +39 02 6611 1573
E-Mail info: info@hangarbicocca.org
Official site: http://www.hangarbicocca.org
GROUNDBREAKING EXHIBITION WILL LET VISITORS WALK THROUGH LUCIO FONTANA’S ENVIRONMENTS, MANY SPECIALLY RECONSTRUCTED FOR THE FIRST TIME
Visitors to a major exhibition which will be staged at Pirelli HangarBicocca in Milan this autumn will be able to walk through several of Lucio Fontana’s celebrated ‘environments’ featuring different forms and colours which unfold through rooms, corridors, glass walls and labyrinthine paths. The show, opening on 20 September 2017, has been developed in collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana.
Despite the innovation of the artist’s environments, this area of Fontana’s work is not widely known. It is only in recent years that scholars have started extensive research into this aspect of his practice and the show at Pirelli HangarBicocca will be a unique opportunity to see ten environments reconstructed in full scale and presented together for the very first time. The exhibition has been developed as the result of research into so far unknown historical documents such as personal letters, architectural plans, photographs, magazine reviews, films and interviews with art historians and Fontana’s collaborators. All the traced material has been reviewed and approved by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Among the exhibited works, the show will include reconstructions of key environments conceived for museums, such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1966 and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1967, and never exhibited since then.
The exhibition is curated by art historian Marina Pugliese, Adjunct Professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco and former Director of the Museum of 20th Century Art in Milan, conservator Barbara Ferriani, lecturer at the Centro di Conservazione e Restauro “La Venaria Reale" and at the University of Milan, and Vicente Todolí, Artistic Director of Pirelli HangarBicocca and previously Director of Tate Modern in London from 2003-10.
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