Lucio Fontana and Mark Grotjahn Exhibition

Stellan Holm Gallery

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Stellan Holm Gallery presents the exhibition: Lucio Fontana and Mark Grotjahn. Featuring a selection of paintings and works on paper by the artists.

Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist, originally born in Argentina. He received recognition as the founder of the Spatialism movement as well as being an integral member of Art Povera. Fontana first executed his renowned perforated paintings in 1949 and entitled the series ‘Concetto Spaziale’. In 1958, he took the idea farther by slashing monochrome painted canvases. He continued to execute these works until his death in 1968. Since 1930 Fontana’s work had been featured consistently at the Venice Biennale, and he represented Argentina various times; he was awarded the Grand Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale of 1966.

Mark Grotjahn (born 1968) is an American painter based in LA who is best known for his abstract body of work and bold geometric paintings. During the 1990’s, Grotjahn began executing a perspective based series of drawings, which shortly after manifested into paintings. By 1997, he had begun his Butterfly Paintings, which consist of a radiating sequence of parallel lines executed in such a manner that the semblence of perspective is created by the painting’s butterfly form. Grotjahn’s solo exhibitions include shows at UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2005); the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2006); and the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.

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from May 06, 2014 to June 07, 2014

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