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Lucio Fontana’s sinuous neon at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao

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Sinuous and luminous, glacial and aerial. The silvery architectures of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum from their atrium will shine with the reflections of a neon sculpture by Lucio Fontana which, for the next three years, thanks to the collaboration with the Lucio Fontana Foundation in Milan, will welcome visitors to the designed museum from above. by Frank Gehry.

The Neon Structure for the IX Triennale di Milano, conceived by the Italian-Argentine artist in 1951, is a work that can be considered at the same time a drawing, a sculpture, a work of luminous design and an expressive trait frozen in the ‘air.

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The work, which in 2019 was part of the exhibition “Lucio Fontana. En el umbral “, for its brightness and size – with the imposing neon that deceives the perspective and the distance – gives to those who observe it an intensified experience of architecture, perceptible both from inside and outside the Museum .

The monochrome canvases and cuts

Despite being known all over the world for his dazzling monochrome canvases, cut and pierced, Fontana always considered himself a sculptor and approached each work as a complete experience of color and gesture, time, depth, volume, material and light.

Performed with a surprising material for the aesthetic criteria of the period, the work is the result of a specific commission for the 1951 Milan Triennale Staircase. It is likely that Fontana responded, with his neon spatial design, to the famous “drawings luminous “made by Pablo Picasso in collaboration with the photographer Gjon Mili in 1950. Using electric light as an” exotic “material of traditional arts, Fontana proposed, with his hundred meters of twisted and chaotic neon tubes, a tour of force to the capabilities of the industry of the time, thus making one of the principles of the 1948 spatialist manifesto effective.

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