Fontana will be represented by a focused survey of his nearly five - decade career, spanning his earliest Spatial Concepts, in which small canvases evoke immense galaxies through
swirling fields of paint subtly embedded with small stones and broken glass, to his famous Attessi, or cuts, in which the artist has used a sharp knife to literally slice through the canvas surface into another space.
Not exact matches
A spray
painting made directly on the gallery's foyer wall, Orion's Curtain was a
swirling field of marks inset with wooden balls
of various sizes marking the imagined positions
of stars, and darkened by touches
of charcoal signaling the texture
of the sky.
The
paintings become gauzy mindscapes (not landscapes, mind you, but something much more vulnerable and cerebral), rendered with Flashe vinyl - based acrylic
paint that stains and
swirls on the canvas in color
fields, before being lyrically interrupted by thin vines
of colored neon light.
The figures dance about in light delineation embedded in a
swirl of audacious swathes
of color
field painting.