The exhibition Lucio Fontana Environments/Environments, will allow visitors to cross Lucio Fontana's Space Environments, some of which have been reconstructed for the first time since the artist's death, and to rediscover their aesthetic and formal value that still makes them contemporary today.
“Ambienti/Environments”, curated by Marina Pugliese, Barbara Ferriani and the Artistic Director of Pirelli HangarBicocca Vicente Todolí and created in collaboration with the Lucio Fontana Foundation, brings together nine environments and two environmental interventions in the Navate space of Pirelli HangarBicocca, created by Fontana (1899, Rosario, Argentina – 1968, Varese, Italy) between 1949 and 1968 for Italian and international institutions and museums, and opens on 20 September 2017.
These are Fontana's most experimental and least known works, precisely because of their ephemeral nature. Some of the rooms on display have been reconstructed for the first time since the artist's death thanks to the study and research of the art historian Marina Pugliese and the restorer Barbara Ferriani and the contribution of the Lucio Fontana Foundation.
The exhibition includes, among the works on display, some of the artist's most relevant Spatial Environments, designed for institutions among the most active in promoting experimental and avant-garde art forms such as the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis in 1966 and the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam in 1967. The visitor has the opportunity to observe and enjoy Fontana's lesser-known works for the first time, to rediscover their historical importance and at the same time to grasp their contemporaneity and innovative strength through a new installation.
