LA: Lucio Fontana, Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948–1968
The first comprehensive presentation in the US of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking work
When: Feb. 13 — April 12, 2020 (Public opening Feb. 15)
Where: Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles
Price: Free
Tags: #installationart
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Beginning 13 February, ‘Lucio Fontana. Walking the Space: Spatial Environments, 1948–1968’ will be the first comprehensive presentation in the US of the late Italian master’s groundbreaking ‘Ambienti spaziali’ (Spatial Environments). Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, this landmark exhibition will highlight Fontana’s critical contribution to the evolution of conceptual art and the confluence of art with science and technology as a means to explore aspects of human perceptual experience. Fontana, a visionary whose revolutionary practice continues to exert influence upon artists internationally, conceived his first environment in 1948, significantly predating and anticipating the immersive conceptual and spatial achievements of such defining figures as Piero Manzoni, Yayoi Kusama, and James Turrell.
Arranged chronologically and beginning with the artist’s first spatial work, the exhibition will feature nine of Fontana’s environments, dating from the years spanning 1948 to 1968.
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