Lucio Fontana (Mandarin edition)

This in-depth account of the iconic Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana’s career provides Mandarin speakers with a thorough introduction to his revolutionary practice. Lucio Fontana' is the first widely available introduction to Lucio Fontana’s practice in Mandarin, offering Chinese audiences a long-overdue opportunity to discover the full scope of the artist’s groundbreaking work. Published on the occasion of an exhibition of Fontana’s work at Hauser & Wirth in Hong Kong, this new monograph marks the gallery’s third collaboration with Fondazione Lucio Fontana and curator Luca Massimo Barbero, following the exhibitions and accompanying publications Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space; Spatial Environments, 1948-1968 (2021) and Lucio Fontana: Sculpture (2022). Edited by Barbero, a leading expert in Fontana’s practice, the book provides a detailed account of the artist’s influential career, richly illustrated with artwork and archival images. Over four chapters, texts by Barbero and Maria Villa, the Vice President of the Foundation, track the evolution of Fontana’s work, beginning with his early days as an artist in Europe and Argentina in the 1920s and 1930s, moving through the birth of Spatialism in the 1940s and the development of his pioneering Ambienti Spaziali in the 1950s, and concluding with the innovative late works created in his final decade, including his iconic slashed canvases. Offering further insight into the artist’s theories, aims, and intentions are a selection of original texts written by Fontana between 1939 and 1968, which have been translated into Mandarin for the very first time.