Artist: Lucio Fontana
Date: 1956
Size: 890 x 1545 cm
Museum: Museo del Novecento (Milan, Italy)
Technique: Plaster
Lucio Fontana devoted an important part of his creative energy to collaborating with architects. This appeared already in the interwar years and continued with renewed monumentum after 1947. He did not limit himself, however, to the traditional inclusion of independent reliefs and sculptures, some of them monumental, in the architectural space, but whenever the partnership with an architect, the occasion and the vision of the clinets made this possible, the sculptor sought to produce organically integrated decorative works. By integrating his sculptural forms, symbols and polychromy with the structures and even with the artificial and natural light sources, he transformed living quarters and functional spaces into true unified environmental settings. In many cases they are among the most advanced and coherent achievements of his formal experiments in the post-war period. These projects were often collaborations with the architect Osvaldo Borsani, whom he had know since he studied at Brera in the lat twenties. Fontana often worked with him from 1949 on (when he made a large spatial cieling with reflected light fot the Gentili house in Milan) and throughout the following decade down to 1960 on the construction of numerous noteworthly interior designs. The sculptor fashioned this ceiling for the dining room of the Hotel del Golfo at Procchio (Isola d
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