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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 2, 2016 | Koller Auktionen | Zurich | Auktion | 3436 | $****** - ****** | Natura Morta |
sculpture
50 cm (19.69 in)
Ceramic painted in brown, yellow, pink, green and blue, glazed
With the incised signature 'L. Fontana'
Former private collection Italy.As early as 1935 Lucio Fontana was gaining experience in the ceramics workshops of Albissola Mare and then in 1937 in Sèvres, with the result that he knew the material thoroughly, knew how to handle it, and, as we can see here, was fully in command of it. The soft, malleable material allowed him experiment, and so it turned out that the first cuts (tagli) were produced in the ceramic works, before they were applied to the paintings. In Fontana's art the main question is the idea (concetto) and in the sounding out and further development of that idea, genres and techniques have no role to play. The plate offered here at auction is a wonderful example on the one hand of his ceramic work, but on the other hand, above all, of his concept and its thorough implementation. Since a canvas in the traditional sense before Fontana was always two-dimensional, so the base of a plate was always flat, so that it could be used. Lucio Fontana broke with all these traditions: the canvas was cut and thereby opened up to three-dimensionality
the base of a plate was moulded, so that a sculpture emerged, which enlarged the space. In addition there are also cuts on our plate, so that the artist has removed its actual function and submitted it completely to his concept.The exceptional importance of his ceramic work is also apparent in its influence on his direct successors, such as the ZERO artists, but also the next generation of artists such as Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel and Norbert Sprangenberg
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