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agosto 30, 2021 - Tornabuoni Art
Tornabuoni Art is delighted to present a work from the famous cycle Fine di Dio (The end of God) by Lucio Fontana
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Tornabuoni Art is delighted to present a work from the famous cycle Fine di Dio (The end of God) by #luciofontana, on the occasion of the Jrst physical #event organized by Italics: "PANORAMA", an island-wide exhibition on #procida (off the coast of Naples) from Thursday 2nd of September to Sunday 5th of September 2021, curated by #vincenzodebellis, Curator and Associate Director of Programs, Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Produced between 1963 and 1964, the Fine di Dio series is considered the most iconic and enigmatic in the artist’s production; a manifesto with a fundamental philosophical content, representative of the avant-garde role of Italian art in the international cultural scene after World War II.
For this reason, these works are preserved and exhibited in all the most important museums in the world (Metropolitan Museum, Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Reina SoJa, Stedelijk, Tate Modern...).
Consisting of 38 canvases, this cycle represents the apex of Fontana’s research in a “spatial” sense. Shown to the public in 1963 in Zurich and Milan, the oval monochromatic canvases present identical and imposing dimensions that speak of gestures, space and spirituality.
The title “Fine di Dio” was chosen by #luciofontana prior to the creation of the Jrst canvas in January 1963, although it was only used publicly after 1964. The term “Jne” and the antithetical egg shape of the frame, a symbol of birth and life, led many to consider this cycle of works as the manifesto of the end of Jgurative art (and of the purely narrative sense prevailing in the 20th century avant-garde) and the beginning of the exclusively conceptual sense of contemporary art after World War II.
Every Fine di Dio is perforated and slashed by the artist in a variety of ways typical of Fontana’s creative process. The gashes, the incisions and the cracks in the canvases constitute a constellation of signs that stretch along the surface according to pure and elegant lines whose iconographic meaning is linked to fertility and the genesis of creation.
In the context of the exhibition #panorama, the presentation of this Fine di Dio takes place in the evocative Chapel of Santa Maria Regina della Purità in the complex of the former Conservatorio delle Orfane in Terra Murata. It is the Jrst time that a work of this cycle is presented in the context of an architecture with a sacred vocation. In this environment, the Fine di Dio is enriched with new meanings, bringing to light for the Jrst time a reading of the work linked to its semantic value: the philosophical meaning of the title of the work has in fact been highlighted by critics who have sometimes privileged in their reading the sense of negation of transcendence and sometimes the rediscovery of spirituality.
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