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Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept, Expectations, 1959 © 2019 Fondazione Lucio Fontana/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome

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Lucio Fontana
On the Threshold

January 23–April 14, 2019
Met Breuer and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org

This first major survey of Lucio Fontana in the United States in more than forty years reexamines his career. The exhibition explores the artist’s beginnings as a sculptor—including his work in ceramic as well as his pioneering environments—contextualizing the radical gesture of his Tagli (Cuts) as part of his broader search to integrate the space of art and the space of the viewer.

Lucio Fontana, Spatial Concept, Expectations, 1959 © 2019 Fondazione Lucio Fontana/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome

Installation view, Black Hole: Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile, GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019. Artwork, left to right: Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini-Collezione Burri, Città di Castello © 2018 SIAE; © Piero Manzoni/2018 SIAE. Photo: Antonio Maniscalco

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Black Hole
Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile

October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019
GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
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Black Hole: Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile is the first exhibition in an ambitious three-year research program dedicated to the theme of matter. Activating a dialogue with the history of scientific and technological discoveries, and investigating the development of aesthetics theories, Black Hole showcases the work of artists who have explored the material element’s most intrinsic significance, where the actual concept of matter shatters to open up a more profound idea of matter as an original element, as the primordial substance that constitutes everything. Work by Urs Fischer, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Giacometti, Anselm Kiefer, and Piero Manzoni is included.

Installation view, Black Hole: Arte e matericità tra informe et invisibile, GAMeC—Galleria d’Arte Moderna et Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy, October 4, 2018–January 6, 2019. Artwork, left to right: Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini-Collezione Burri, Città di Castello © 2018 SIAE; © Piero Manzoni/2018 SIAE. Photo: Antonio Maniscalco

Giuseppe Penone, Respirare l’ombra (To Breath the Shadow), 1999 (detail), Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Installation view at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. Photo: Paolo Pellion

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Arte Povera
A Creative Revolution

May 17–August 16, 2018
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
www.hermitagemuseum.org

Arte Povera emerged in the second half of the 1960s with a generation of Italian artists who challenged traditional painting and sculpture by embracing simple materials and techniques. The exhibition includes works by prominent members of the movement, as well as art that proceeded Arte Povera. Work by Lucio Fontana and Giuseppe Penone is included.

Giuseppe Penone, Respirare l’ombra (To Breath the Shadow), 1999 (detail), Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Installation view at Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino. Photo: Paolo Pellion

Carsten Höller, Light Wall, 2000/17 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Attilio Maranzano

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Welt ohne Außen

June 8–August 5, 2018
Martin-Gropius-Bau Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
www.berlinerfestspiele.de

Spanning the Light and Space movement of the late 1960s to contemporary performances and workshops, this exhibition features a great variety of immersive practices, which dissolve categories of viewer and work and diminish the distance between subject and object. Work by Lucio Fontana and Carsten Höller is included.

Carsten Höller, Light Wall, 2000/17 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Attilio Maranzano

Lucio Fontana’s Luce spaziale (1951) at the 9th Milan Triennale, 1951 © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano

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Lucio Fontana
Ambienti/Environments

September 21, 2017–February 25, 2018
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
www.hangarbicocca.org

In 1949, Lucio Fontana began investigating and developing spatial environments: architectural settings that played with visitors’ perceptions, often in disconcerting ways. This exhibition offers a unique opportunity to see ten environments reconstructed in full scale and presented together for the first time.

Lucio Fontana’s Luce spaziale (1951) at the 9th Milan Triennale, 1951 © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio, 1963 © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano

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14th Biennale de Lyon
Floating Worlds

September 20, 2017–January 7, 2018
Various locations in Lyon, France
www.biennaledelyon.com

Curator Emma Lavigne, director of the Centre Pompidou-Metz, reinterprets the term modern, setting it in the context of a fluid and extended modernity. The Biennale explores the legacy and reach of the concept of the modern in today’s art. Work by Davide Balula, Alexander Calder, and Lucio Fontana is included.

Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio, 1963 © Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milano

Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2010© Carsten Höller

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Infinite Garden
From Giverny to the Amazon

March 20–August 28, 2017
Centre Pompidou-Metz, France
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr

Featuring some three hundred works from the late nineteenth century to the present day, this exhibition explores fantastical representations of gardens and nature, focusing on the experimental, the obscure, the chaotic, and the unpredictable. Work by Lucio Fontana and Carsten Höller is included.

Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2010
© Carsten Höller