LUCIO FONTANA

In 1961, a solo exhibition by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana met with a scathing critical response from New York art critics . Fontana (1899--1968), well known in Europe for his series of slashed monochrome paintings, offered New York ten canvases slashed a nd punctured, thickly painted in luridly brilliant hues and embellished with chunks of colored glass. One critic described the work as halfway between constructivism and costume jewelry, unwittingly putting his finger on the contradiction at the heart of these pai ntings an...[Read more]