Art.view: Climbing back Oct 25, 2009
Continuing demand for , such as Lucio Fontana, Mario Marini and Giorgio de Chirico, as well as the later work of Fausto Melotti, Alighiero Boetti and Enrico Castellani, was evident. This was especially true at Sotheby s, where 30 lots totalled 7. (The Economist)
Looking into the play of light May 6, 2009
Back in 1949, the Italian artist Lucio Fontana started slashing his paintings with a knife. Slicing into the sacrosanct canvas, he brought space, not just its illusion conveyed in paint, into the picture. (Boston Globe)
Art.view: Spring sprung Mar 15, 2009
Similarly, at least seven dealers brought works by Lucio Fontana, a 20th century Italian Modernist who has become enormously fashionable in America. Daniella Luxembourg s very early experimental pink version of his Tagli ( Cuts ) and Ben Brown s vast white version, made for the wall of a Milan apartment, will be remembered as the rarest and most important among them. (The Economist)
Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings Mar 3, 2009
This partly violent gesture led Gerhard Richter to realize early on that the works of his predecessors, such as Jackson Pollock, as well as Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein, would, in the long run, fall pray to the "stockpile of the spectacle." (Buchloh) Richter, therefore, had to ask himself how a contemporary painted abstraction, which was born out of disillusionment and hopelessness, could now look like. Out of the tension between the utopia of a new beginnings and the mourning over the losses of... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Art.view: Shock and the new Feb 15, 2009
The top lot, featured on the cover of the sale catalogue, was Lucio Fontana s Concetto Spaziale , one of a series of 22 paintings inspired by Venice and completed by the Italian Modernist in 1961. The picture had not been seen in public for nearly half a century. (The Economist)
Low estimates and high profiles buoy the contemporary art market Feb 13, 2009
18 million, pinned on an abstract composition which was painted by Lucio Fontana in 1961 under the generic title "Concetto Spaziale." The picture from the "Venezia" series looks like a bit of doodling in creamy white and gold by a bored house painter randomly swinging his roller about on a wall. But with the passage of time Fontana has come to be seen as a blue chip. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
