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Fontana will be the first\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th-century Italian artist displayed in the Museum after the retrospectives dedicated to\u00a0 great international figures such as Bacon, Giacometti, and Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>About fifty woks \u2013 gold oil paintings and ceramics, executed mainly in the 1950s and 60s \u2013 will be presented. The exhibition is part of a research programme that the Museum has been conducting for years on its exceptionality as a highly significant place with a combined identity as both a collection and the space surrounding it.\u00a0\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>The insertion of Fontana\u2019s works within the collection \u2013 in particular, among the paintings of the Renaissance an the Baroque \u2013 will help to highlight the constant topicality of a problem that is crucial in the pursuit of painting of every era: the concept of \u201cspace\u201d, its definition, and the anxious search for its representation.<\/p>\n<p>To make Lucio Fontana\u2019s creative apex meaningful, the focus will be on the great artist\u2019s gold production \u2013 gold not as a colour, but as a supreme, anti-naturalistic abstraction in a context, the Galleria Borghese, where the infinite chromatic variety and the multiplicity of themes and subjects pervade all the space. Thus gold no longer in the Baroque sense of the supreme glorification of ornamentation, but rather the structural summit of form whose visual and compositional material encloses light itself in its physical and aesthetic interpretation. Gold as a spatial component that \u2013 as in the older eras of classical Antiquity, early Christianity the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance \u2013 is the synthesis of light and space.<\/p>\n<p>But at the same time, also gold as a virgin material originally mixed with mud. Thus his magnificent production of ceramics, created in material terms from muddy earth, will accompany his gold works in this exhibition, with the latter being juxtaposed to a group of \u201cterra-cottas\u201d, his painted ceramics, with <em>Crucifixions <\/em>as the dominant subject: compositions that\u00a0 are all deeply shaken by an unseemly shiver out of the Baroque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Galleria Borghese will dedicate an exhibition to a specific production by Lucio Fontana: his gold Spatial Concepts and ceramic Crucifixes. Fontana will be the first\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20th-century Italian artist displayed in the Museum after the retrospectives dedicated to\u00a0 great international figures such as Bacon, Giacometti, and Picasso. 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