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)

Lucio Fontana on IASBlog

La Fondazione Lucio Fontana

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.

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