Four Collages with Color Concetto Spaziale Serigraphs
New York, Paris, Geneva: Galerie Alexandre Iolas; Sergio Tosi, 1966. Original artwork. Softcover. Octavo (8 5/8 x 6 7/8"). 16 leaves. Original handmade textured stiff wraps with flaps and black lettering on cover, protected by modern mylar. Text by Gillo Dorfles in French.
One of Fontana's last works was entitled "Teatrini (Little Theatres)," returning to essentially flat idioms using backcloth, enclosed by wings, serving as framing, referencing theater and the act of looking with irregular spheres and silhouettes in the foreground, creating shadow plays on punctuated backdrops. Fontana considered this series to be the high point of his Spatial Concepts, relating directly to his theoretical approach: Realistic Spatialism.
This catalog was realized by Sergio Tosi for the Galerie Alexandre Iolas exhibitions in New York, Paris and Geneva; an artist book containing four colored "Concetto Spaziale serigraphs" with perforations, framed with cut-outs creating lucid theatric collages on light cardboards. Bound with text by Gillo Dorfles and four photographs by Lothar Wolleh and Ugo Mulas. Fine condition. Item #53598
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was an Argentine born Italian painter and sculptor, credited with being the originator of Spatialism, an art movement aiming to synthesize color, sound, space, movement and time. The main thrust of the movement is laid out in Fontana's "Manifesto blanco (White Minfest)," published in Buenos Aires in 1946. It rejects the "illusory/virtual" space of traditional esel painting and is striving to combine art and science in an attempt to create "Real Space."
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