Lucio Fontana

Exhibited by Galerie Karsten Greve AG

Material Plaster, painted

Dimensions 21 × 58 × 35 cm

Price Available upon inquiry

Status Vetted

About the Work

Figure distese (1939) is a significant example of the early work of Lucio Fontana. The two reclining figures combine sensuously modelled corporeality with an increasing formal reduction, already anticipating his later radical conceptions of space. The figures appear to merge both with one another and with the surface beneath them.

From the 1920s onward and over the course of several decades, Fontana used sculpture as an experimental medium for investigating space and gesture, drawing on tradition while transforming it through expressive deformation.

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