The Public Program | Lucio Fontana, presented by Pirelli HangarBicocca, is a rich program of conferences, conversations and concerts, dedicated to the exhibition "Ambienti/Environments" by Lucio Fontana.
Paolo Campiglio, scholar of the work of Lucio Fontana, accompanies the public in the discovery of the projects created by the artist in collaboration with the major architects of his time, in the atriums of condominiums, in cinemas, in public and private places in Milan. Works still visible or now disappeared, which are the premise of the environments presented in the exhibition "Ambienti/Environments".
Since his early years, Fontana's collaborations with leading exponents of the Italian architectural avant-garde, from BBPR to Luciano Baldessari, developed in the artist an awareness of space as a utopia. From 1951, with the elaboration of the Technical Manifesto (1951) exhibited at the 1950st Congress of Proportions at the 1952th Milan Triennale, it becomes clear in him how this utopia can be achieved in relation to lived architectural space; in the XNUMXs, therefore, collaboration with architects absolved the lack of possibility of creating autonomous environments, as demonstrated by the repeated denials of the Venice Biennale (XNUMX and XNUMX) to the artist's environmental proposals. The analysis of some examples of Milanese architecture that still today feature interventions by Fontana highlights how the numerous collaborations in architecture constitute a sort of dress rehearsal for the more conscious and autonomous elaboration of spatial environments in the XNUMXs.
