A glimpse of the Giacometti – Fontana . The search for the absolute. Work by Alberto Giacometti at Palazzo Vecchio
“Thoughts” by Beatrice Brandini
Alberto Giacometti and Lucio Fontana together for the first time. A project by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo del Novecento, which connects two giants of the twentieth century.
From right Buste d’homme by Alberto Giacometti and Paulette by Lucio Fontana
This wonderful journey intends to suggest new ways of comparing and analyzing these two extraordinary masters.
“This exhibition project was born from a dream, explains Sergio Risaliti, a journey through the most remote time and into the most distant future. Human figures emaciated, reduced to their essence, drained but standing upright or walking on a corrugated surface like a planet still in the process of forming…”
Glimpses of the exhibition Giacometti – Fontana. The search for the absolute.
The Giacometti – Fontana The search for the absolute, exhibition curated by Chiara Gatti and Sergio Risaliti (2 March – 4 June 2023), will be hosted within the monumental spaces of the Museum of Palazzo Vecchio, in particular in the Sala delle Udienze and in the Sala dei Gigli, where today the marvelous Giuditta by Donatello is preserved.
Seated young lady by Giacometti in the exhibition: Giacometti – Fontana. The search for the absolute.
Spatial Concept, Nature by Fontana in the exhibition: Giacometti – Fontana. The search for the absolute.
Two figures, that of Giacometti and Fontana, very distant from each other in style and life paths, but linked, not only for being both two extraordinary symbols of the twentieth century, by a reflection on the truth of art, between experimentation with matter and imagination and creativity.
Groupe de trois hommes by Giacometti in the exhibition: Giacometti – Fontana. The search for the absolute.
In addition to the extraordinary nature of the event and the works presented together (to ensure four works by Giacometti the value was 300,000,000 euros), the meeting aims to induce reflections and questions on affinities of thought and common references, of these two great artists, pioneers of an evolution of the art of the last century.
Glimpse of the Lucio Fontana exhibition. L’origine du monde at the Museo del Novecento
Spatial Concept by Lucio Fontana in the exhibition Lucio Fontana. The origin of the world
In conjunction with this great project, the Museo del Novecento will dedicate two floors of the former Leopoldine to the sculptures and drawings of Lucio Fontana. The Lucio Fontana. L’origine du monde exhibition (from 2 March to 13 September 2023), aims to explore aspects of the great Italian-Argentine master, still little known or in any case, less in-depth. Extraordinary, modern and innovative author of the last century. The exhibition makes use of the support and loan of a substantial nucleus of works from the Lucio Fontana Foundation.
Glimpse of the Lucio Fontana exhibition. L’origine du monde at the Museo del Novecento
Seated female nude and female figure by Lucio Fontana
Exhibitions like these are lifeblood for the city of Florence which no longer lives only on its extraordinary artistic heritage, but looks ahead, looks to the future.
A moment of the press conference with Mayor Nardella, Chiara Gatti, Alessia Bettini and Sergio Risaliti
I always get excited when I see works of this level and I always attribute an extraordinary saving power to art, especially in a moment like this, shifting attention to the tragedies that characterize our daily lives every day. And I thank the universe for giving us art, with its beauty, and extraordinary artists such as Giacometti and Fontana were.
Good life to everyone!
Beatrice