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Friends of The Courtauld Lecture Series - 'Conservation in Focus'
Tuesday, 9 February
5.30 - 6.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture Theatre
Pia Gottschaller (German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome) - Lucio Fontana´s Technical Means for Reaching Beyond the Third Dimension
Dr Pia Gottschaller will present a lecture on the subject of her recent monograph of Lucio Fontana, Lucio Fontana´s Technical Means for Reaching Beyond the Third Dimension. The talk intends to offer insight into the 20th century Italian artist´s painterly choices as he made them from day to day throughout an unusually diverse career: faithful to his early training, he never abandoned working in the figurative mode, only to begin in 1949, at the age of 50, to sacrifice the integrity of the pictorial surface in his abstract work cycles such as the 'buchi' and 'tagli'. The discussion of his vast output unfolds in front of a historical foil that also takes into consideration aspects of his innovative use of materials and technique. From the examination of selected works as well as the inclusion of an abundance of new source material, Fontana's artistic process and concept emerge as being intricately linked.
Dr Gottschaller is also the author of The Act of Creating Space (2008), which investigates Lucio Fontana's artistic process. For further biographical details please see: http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/events/2010/spring/feb9_friendslecture.shtml
Open to all, free admission
Organised by Conservation of Wall Painting and Conservation & Technology Departments
Event details
- Conservation in Focus
- Location: Courtauld
- Date: Thursday, 1st January 1970
Tuesday, 9 February
5.30 - 6.30pm, Kenneth Clark Lecture TheatrePia Gottschaller (German Academy Villa Massimo, Rome) - Lucio Fontana´s Technical Means for Reaching Beyond the Third Dimension
Dr Pia Gottschaller will present a lecture on the subject of her recent monograph of Lucio Fontana, Lucio Fontana´s Technical Means for Reaching Beyond the Third Dimension. The talk intends to offer insight into the 20th century Italian artist´s painterly choices as he made them from day to day throughout an unusually diverse career: faithful to his early training, he never abandoned working in the figurative mode, only to begin in 1949, at the age of 50, to sacrifice the integrity of the pictorial surface in his abstract work cycles such as the 'buchi' and 'tagli'. The discussion of his vast output unfolds in front of a historical foil that also takes into consideration aspects of his innovative use of materials and technique. From the examination of selected works as well as the inclusion of an abundance of new source material, Fontana's artistic process and concept emerge as being intricately linked.
Open to all, free admission