El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present artist Lucio Fontana’s 1968 Ambiente Spaziale [Spatial Environment]. First created in the late 1940s in relation to the artist’s innovative Spatialism movement, Fontana’s Spatial Environments are labyrinthine, total environments that viewers enter and navigate.
Image: Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968) at El Museo del Barrio
El Museo del Barrio is pleased to present artist Lucio Fontana’s 1968 Ambiente Spaziale [Spatial Environment]. First created in the late 1940s in relation to the artist’s innovative Spatialism movement, Fontana’s Spatial Environments are labyrinthine, total environments that viewers enter and navigate. Reconstructed under the guidance of the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, the all-white Spatial Environment(1968) at El Museo will follow the exact specifications of the artist’s final work in the series, originally conceived and presented at Documenta 4 in Kassel, Germany shortly before Fontana’s death.
Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968) at El Museo del Barrio
The installation coincides with the exhibition at The Met Breuer Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968) (on view January 23 through April 14, 2019), curated by Iria Candela, Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in The Met’s Department of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The presentation of Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968) at El Museo del Barrio is made possible with support from Angela Westwater.
Lucio Fontana: Spatial Environment (1968)
El Museo del Barrio
On view from 23 January - 14 April 2019
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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