Art of Lucio Fontana's buchi “Cuando Fontana makes the picture in a color field and then slit with a clean cut, shows that the sign (the court) is inconsistent with a definition of space, inside and out, over here and beyond the box. There are, however, an operational aspect of the utmost importance: Fontana is not content to observe the sign, but it works, it really slit fabric with a court with appropriate measure and is practiced in the right spot. This act provides a dimension to the field as accurately as space. "..." Given that the gesture - sign is the only one that determines a space in the vagueness of the field, it follows that without the presence of collateral and independent artist , industrial production lacks a cognitive significance. Fontana claims for the artist's prerogative of the invention at the time of technological progress. "
is in this way Argan describes the work of Lucio Fontana, the artist born in Argentina and later settled in Milan (Italy), who in 1949 worked on a white, square and one meter side, piercing the back sheet with many holes centered on the sheet and extending over the surface in irregular circular shapes and spirals. With side lighting, cast shadows on the surface of the painting. Fontana
considering the role not as a two-dimensional, but as a spatial possibilities plastic material which he considered worthy of investigation, calling on all his works Concetto Spaziale (Spatial Concept) understanding that all these works, deal with the discovery of Fontana, the buchi (holes).
This fulfilled an expectation in the evolution of modern art, formulated in 1946 in collaboration with their students to "be able to release the legacy of the Renaissance," understanding this heritage as a synonym for illusionistic representation of space through perspective, the opening of the surface of the painting means to create a continuum between the observer and the space of the picture.
In the ensuing years, Fontana perfected the idea of \u200b\u200bpiercing the surface with different variations, holes of different sizes, arranged or not, facts on the back or front of the sheet, including lace and sequins and including changing the paper support for a canvas. Anyway, if I say that these variants were for the public, the incisions for him, just had enough.
His work throughout his life, was identified by different groups of works, characterized by the actions imposed on the material. In the series pietre used colored glass pieces to enhance spatiality and the effect of light on surfaces. The reliefs were Barocchi pasty.
In autumn 1958, first made on paper cuts and then take them to a canvas, which I call Attese and hereinafter adopted the name taglio : Fontana first applied several layers of cuts applied paint on wet paint. With a black gauze placed after the incisions, sought to represent the void, "when mankind accepts the idea of \u200b\u200binfinity, and has also accepted the idea of \u200b\u200bnothing. "
believed and stated that the space was empty sign, referring to the art galleries displaying and selling paintings. To the question of how to perform the work of art as an idea than as a work for sale, Fontana submitted its environment of Kassel, aptly expressing the general state of art to 1967, when the artwork as goods, became a topic of discussion. So in mid-1960, Fontana was devoted to a digression on his ambienti spaziali , labyrinthine installations that invite you to explore its spaces, similar a theatrical environments.
describe the vast work of Fontana is not easy, even more so understand your idea about art. The buchi, taglio and ambienti among others, were their own ways of expressing art beyond the mainstream. For him art was undoubtedly pure metaphysics, with pure intellectual dimension, as he claimed.
Sources:
- Giulio Carlo Argan, modern art movements of the Enlightenment to contemporary Ediciones Akal, Art and Aesthetics 27, Madrid, 1998, (1991)
- HESS Barbara, Lucio Fontana 1899-1969, "A new fact in the sculpture", Taschen, 2006