Figura Femminile con Fiori (1948) is a seminal sculpture from Fontana's oeuvre and stands at the pinnacle of the artist's achievements in sculpture and ceramics. The present work has been...
Figura Femminile con Fiori (1948) is a seminal sculpture from Fontana's oeuvre and stands at the pinnacle of the artist's achievements in sculpture and ceramics. The present work has been included in a number of major institutional exhibitions including Lucio Fontana: Retrospective (The Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris) and the travelling exhibition Lucio Fontana, Entre Matéria y Espacio (Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Fundació La Caixa, Mallorca).
Fontana's sculptures mark the genesis of his ceaseless exploration of Spatialism and Figura Femminile con Fiori was created at a critical time in Fontana's shift from figuration to abstraction. In 1945, Fontana moved to Albisolas, Italy, to study under Futurist ceramicist Tullio Mazzotti and the following year, 1946, Fontana published his first manifesto, Manifesto Blanco, in Buenos Aires, which called for a synthesis of space, time, colour, sound and movement in art. This manifesto echoed the spatiality and suggested the movement of Baroque art and the dynamism of Futurism.
Identified as a portrait of Fontana's wife Teresita Rasini, the vibrant female figure stands in a classical contrapposto pose, activating the space around it with Fontana's dynamic gestural handling. Figura Femminile con Fiori perfectly demonstrates Fontana's complex understanding of three-dimensional form and represents the artist's longstanding emphasis on matter and movement.
Gi. Vi. Emme, Milan Private Collection, Milan Private Collection, Europe (acquired from the above in 1990) Private Collection
展覽
Palma di Mallorca, Fundació La Caixa; and Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Lucio Fontana. Entre matéria y espacio, July - November 1998, p. 57, no. 8, illustrated in colour Paris, The Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Lucio Fontana: Retrospective, April - August 2014, pp. 105 and 137, no. 57, illustrated in colour New York, Colnaghi, Fontana, presented by Ben Brown Fine
Arts & Colnaghi, 22 January - 28 February 2019 New York, Hauser & Wirth, Lucio Fontana: Sculpture, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, in collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, 3 November 2022 - 4 February 2023, p. 105, illustrated in colour
出版物
Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo Ragionato, Milan 2006, Vol. I, p. 213, no. 48 SC 21, illustrated incorrectly without base
Karsten Greve, Robert Storr, Lucio Fontana, Sculpture / Skulptur, 'Io Sono uno Scultore
e Non un Ceramista,
Cologne 2012, p. 91, illustrated in colour
Exhibition catalogue, London, Robilant+Voena, Immaterial: Fontana Ceramics, 2019, no. 5, illustrated in colour Luca Massimo Barbero, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato delle Sculture Ceramiche, Milan 2022, vol. I, pp. 369, 411, no. 48 SC 21, illustrated
Courtesy of Ben Brown Fine Arts
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