Lucio Fontana was one such artist. The surface of the sculpture reveals the artist's hand, with visible marks indicating the development of the form. This first major survey of Lucio Fontana in the United States in more than forty years reexamines his career. Drususgasse 1-5 Cologne, 50667, Germany Mittwoch, 18. Our innovative and timely exhibitions, education and public programs, immersive activities, and community happenings actively engage audiences in thought-provoking experiences of art, culture, and society. The Contemporary Art Auction at Dorotheum (Vienna, November 25, 2015) includes a group of exceptional ceramic works by the Italian modern master, Lucio Fontana who has been setting a hot pace in the resale market for the last five years. Lucio Fontana: Ceramics Installation view, Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, 2020. Tuesday - Friday 10 am - 6.30 pm Saturday 10 am - 6 pm. By Paolo Campiglio. Lucio Fontana Ceramics is the eighth one man show to open at Karsten Greve’s Cologne gallery. GALERIE KARSTEN GREVE PARIS 5, rue Debelleyme 75003 Paris France Google Maps +33 (0)1 42 77 19 37 info@galerie-karsten-greve.fr Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 6 pm. Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present a solo exhibition featuring ceramics and works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. A total of about fourty pieces will be shown in the context of Fontana’s avant-garde oeuvre, including ceramic sculptures and so-called Concetti spaziali (“spatial concepts”) as well as works on paper known as Ambienti spaziali. The AAM’s exhibitions and programming are, Yoga & Mindfulness for Teens: Empowerment, Admission to the AAM is free courtesy of Amy and John Phelan. Figure Nere (Black Figures) Figure Nere is an example of Fontana's early ceramic sculpture, featuring a rough-hewn, rectangular terra-cotta slab with two black silhouetted figures, a taller one behind a shorter figure in the front. Lucio Fontana Foundation - Ceramics "Le Ceramiche - Ceramics (1949-1968)" This cycle includes ceramic and clay works produced after 1949 that have a specifically decorative or home-furnishing purpose (items such as plates, vases, small sculptures, handles and so on). Lucio Fontana (Italian: [ˈluːtʃo fonˈtaːna]; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. During this period, he worked on the Manifiesto Blanco, in which he called for a synthesis of the arts and the abolition of conventional materials, propagating the dimensions of time and movement in space instead. Published by Skira. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism . PRESS RELEASE Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present a solo exhibition featuring ceramics and works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. We are available by phone and email for for orders and pickups at any time. As the founder of a revolutionary technique called Spazialismo, or Spatialism, Fontana was deeply concerned with the practical ways of making art that confronted the mysterious properties of space. Galerie Karsten Greve is delighted to present the solo exhibition LUCIO FONTANA Ceramics featuring an exquisite selection of ceramics and important works on paper by Lucio Fontana in Cologne. Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961. Returning to Argentina in 1922, he worked in his father's sculpture studio before opening one of his own in 1924. The presentation at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles in February 2020 will comprise Fontana’s Ambienti; the exhibition in New York in spring 2021 will explore his ceramics and sculptures; then a major survey will be staged at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong in fall 2021. This work is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan under no. 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