Lucio Fontana

Ambienti / Environments

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Photography, Documentation
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Photo: Agostino Osio
Photo Editing: Jacopo Nocentini, Marco Dabbicco
Year: 2017

About the exhibition

Ambienti/Environments is focused on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm of installation art, with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali—seen together for the first time—that highlights the farsighted, innovative genius of this twentieth-century master. The Ambienti spaziali (“Spatial Environments”), rooms and corridors that the artist began to conceive and design in the late 1940s, were almost always destroyed once the exhibition was over; they are Fontana’s most experimental yet least-known works, due to their ephemeral nature.