05.10.2024
Group exhibition Lucio Fontana: Erwartung with installation five suns / eclipse (2021) by Mischa Kuball
2024/10/5 - 2025/1/12 I Opening on 2024/10/4, 6 pm | Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal /DE
With the exhibition Lucio Fontana: Erwartung, the Von der Heydt-Museum brings Fontana's complex oeuvre to life in all its many facets: from figurative to conceptual works, from ceramics to spatial installations. Around 100 works from the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, as well as from public and private collections provide an insight into the astonishingly experimental and daring work. A highlight of the presentation is the reconstruction of one of his environments, which are hardly known despite their significant role in Fontana's thinking. The series of cut-out pictures, which he entitled “Erwartung” (Italian: “Attesa”), has become a trademark of his art. They embody his fascination with light, space and material, his aspiration to break out into the new and open.
One chapter of the exhibition is dedicated to the exchange between Fontana and a younger generation of artists who took up his ideas and visions of the future. Internationally, Piero Manzoni and Yves Klein are worthy of mention; for the Rhineland, ZERO artists such as Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker in particular.
The exhibition is complemented by Mischa Kuball's installation five suns / eclipse (2021).
Mischa Kuball: five suns / eclipse, 2021 (c) VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2024, Archive Mischa Kuball