The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is planning a Lucio Fontana show in 2017. The Italian artist’s first and only US retrospective took place in 1977 at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which also presented a smaller show in 2006. “An exhibition at the Met will necessarily be all-encompassing,” a source says. A spokeswoman for the museum confirms that a Fontana show is “under consideration”. But the show has not been formally announced.”
(via Metropolitan Museum plans major Fontana show for 2017)
Further Reading:
Pia Gottschaller. Lucio Fontana: the artist’s materials. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute, 2012.
Fontana, Lucio, Enrico Crispolti, and Rosella Siligato. Lucio Fontana. Milano: Electa, 1998.
Lucio Fontana, The Art Newspaper.
Spatial Concept, 1949-50, punctured canvas, Tate Modern.