This volume charts Lucio Fontana's exploration of sculpture from the 1930s until his death. The monograph, a collaboration with the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, also includes a biographical essay by the foundation’s Maria Villa, tracing the artist’s life through his ever-innovating sculptural practice, and serves as a companion volume to 'Lucio Fontana: Walking the Space'. This book also includes essays by Fontana scholar Luca Massimo Barbero, and researcher Cristina Beltrami.
Luca Massimo Barbero explores ceramics as 'the ideal material for the Fontanian gesture' and re-examines Fontana’s experimentation with terracotta, clay, plaster, concrete and metal. Researcher Cristina Beltrami resituates Fontana as a pioneering artist in the European post-war context, investigating his exchanges with other Italian and international practitioners.
