"Spazialismo" Exhibition

Bitforms Gallery

poster for "Spazialismo" Exhibition

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bitforms gallery presents Spazialismo, a group exhibition that examines Lucio Fontana's concepts in the 1940s and 50s about how we consider structures of space in the modern, yet natural, world. The exhibit is also intended to serve as a vehicle for contemporary review of Spatialist texts - such as "Manifesto Blanco" (1946), "Movinetto Spazialle"(1948), "Manifesto tecnico della Spazialismo" (1951) and the enthusiastic "Television Manifesto" (1952).

In 1946 Fontana founded the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aries. An avant-garde art school, its aim was to promote the idea that a new art was necessary to reflect the modern world as revealed by science. Aligned with the Baroque tradition of depicting dynamic spaces of plastic movement, Fontana's ideas were also concerned with phenomenology and continued dimensional discovery of Nature, of which man is a part.

Gathering the voices of five contemporary artists - Mel Bochner, R. Luke DuBois, Michael Joaquin Grey, Yael Kanarek and Matthew Ritchie - the exhibition focuses on expanded representations of space and dynamic movement. Also incuded will be photographic documenation of Fontana's 1951 illuminated arabesque for La Triennale di Milano - an early use of neon installation in an arts context.

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Schedule

from November 19, 2009 to December 30, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-11-19 from 18:00 to 20:30

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