Lucio Fontana a Venezia, 1960-1961.
Lucio Fontana: Origins and Imagination
The symposium, a collaboration between the Fondazione Giorgio Cini Institute of Art History and the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, with the support of Intesa Sanpaolo, will be held on December 5th and 6th on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.
Lucio Fontana’s vital and inventive work extends and develops over a wide span of time from the 1920s to the end of the 1960s. A career studded with constant experimentation that placed him, from the very beginning, among the pioneers of contemporary art.
In the History of Art of recent decades, the centrality of his figure and work has increasingly emerged, and the new studies, multiple exhibitions and publications dedicated to him have thus been able to restore, especially to new generations of scholars, but also to a wider public, the variety and coherent continuity of his entire creative career. The international conference Lucio Fontana: Origins and Imagination, promoted by the Giorgio Cini Foundation Institute of Art History and the Lucio Fontana Foundation, intends for the first time to take stock of recent and ongoing studies, as well as to promote, at this significant and rich moment, a discussion between scholars who have dealt directly with the artist or whose in-depth studies have touched on Fontana themes that are useful for offering new readings and avenues of investigation: from those more strictly historical-artistic to research concerning the material and conservation aspects of the works.
International Conference: Lucio Fontana: Origins and Imagination
Over the course of the two days of study, scheduled for 5 and 6 December 2024, there will be the opportunity to explore the imagery and context within which Lucio Fontana’s activity developed, as well as aspects, moments and themes pertinent to his research and critical reception in Italy and abroad.
The futurist roots of his work, the relationship with the sculpture of his contemporaries, the very early creative phase strained between Italy and Argentina, are some of the investigative paths that will be tackled and that will probe the reasons for the author’s current position. A section of the symposium will also be devoted to an in-depth examination of case studies: exhibitions, selected from among the many, that have contributed to building Fontana’s fortune or to promoting particular aspects of his creative parabola, reaffirming his role as a pioneer and the vitality of his research.
The symposium also highlights the interest shown by the Giorgio Cini Foundation in the Italian-Argentine master, the protagonist of several in-depth events hosted and promoted by the Venetian institution: the Exhibition of Drawings and Graphic Works by Lucio Fontana in 1972; the 2014 conference Figurative Art and Abstract Art. 1954 – 2014 and the scholarship Lucio Fontana, Argentinean period: monuments projects and works announced in 2022 once again in close synergy with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, which confirms its increasing commitment to supporting and encouraging scientific projects on the artist.
PROGRAMMe
Thursday, 5 December 2024
Join the live streaming on the Giorgio Cini Foundation YouTube channel
9:45 | Saluti istituzionali
Luca Massimo Barbero
Direttore dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Arte Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Silvia Ardemagni
Presidente della Fondazione Lucio Fontana
10:00 | Sessione I
Immaginario e contesto dell’avanguardia fontaniana
PRESIEDE:
Luca Massimo Barbero
Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Ester Coen
Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Radici futuriste nel pensiero fontaniano
Nico Stringa
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Arturo Martini e Lucio Fontana: dentro e oltre la scultura
Francesco Tedeschi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
L’“astrazione creativa” di Lucio Fontana nei progetti e nelle sculture di metà anni Trenta
Valerio Terraroli
Università degli Studi di Verona
La ceramica italiana degli anni Trenta e Quaranta tra arte e decorazione
Giovanni Bianchi
Università degli Studi di Padova
Intorno allo Spazialismo veneziano: il richiamo dell’ombra in Mario Deluigi e in Lucio Fontana
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14:30 | Sessione II
“Luoghi fontaniani” tra Argentina e Italia
PRESIEDE:
Maria Villa
Fondazione Lucio Fontana
Daniela Alejandra Sbaraglia
Storica dell’arte
Anni Venti: opere d’esordioe formazione tra Argentina e Italia
Lorena Mouguelar
Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Lucio Fontana e la “nuova sensibilità” nell’arte argentina
Luca Bochicchio
Università degli Studi di Verona “La ruota nell’antro”: la fornace di Albisola come fucina creativa e motivo poetico
Sileno Salvagnini
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
Lucio Fontana alle Biennali
Giorgina Bertolino
Storica dell’arte
Il “Devenir de Fontana” a Torino negli anni Sessanta
Friday, 6 December 2024
Join the live streaming on the Giorgio Cini Foundation YouTube channel
10:00 | Sessione III
Fortuna internazionale: anni Cinquanta e Sessanta
PRESIEDE:
Francesco Tedeschi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano
Paolo Campiglio
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Il rapporto con Charles Damiano e il suo ruolo nella promozione internazionale di Fontana tra Inghilterra e Stati Uniti
Silvia Bignami
Università degli Studi di Milano
“Douche froide” a Parigi. Lucio Fontana tra mostre e critica
Stefano Turina
Università degli Studi di Torino
Un rivoluzionario quieto e fervente. Lucio Fontana e il Giappone (1953–1968)
Francesca Pola
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano
Lucio Fontana e ZERO: attorno alla retrospettiva di Leverkusen (1962)
Barbara Ferriani
Restauratrice
Fontana e la materia
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14:30 | Sessione IV
Esporre Lucio Fontana: criteri espositivi come letture critiche
PRESIEDE:
Francesca Pola
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano
Luca Pietro Nicoletti
Università degli Studi di Udine
“Omaggio a Fontana” 1963-1972. Enrico Crispolti interprete di Fontana, prima e dopo
Francesco Guzzetti
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Intorno al 1966: Lucio Fontana negli Stati Uniti
Chogakate Kazarian
Curatrice e storica dell’arte
Curare la mostra “Lucio Fontana, rétrospective”, al MAM di Parigi, 2014
Marina Pugliese
Mudec, Milano
“Lucio Fontana. Ambienti/Environments”, Pirelli HangarBicocca 2017/2018. Ragioni di una mostra
Cristina Beltrami
Storica dell’arte
“Lucio Fontana: Sculpture” alla galleria Hauser & Wirth di New York: la prima mostra di sculture dell’artista negli Stati Uniti
Gianni Caravaggio
Artista
Concetto spaziale – un dispositivo per performare immagini prime
Opening hours and admission
Admission free subject to availability
Lucio Fontana a Venezia, 1960-1961.
