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Lot Essay
This work is as rare as it is compelling for the beauty that distinguishes it. It represents one of Fontana's first holessurface and his first "red". A magnificent constellation, dominated by the harmony of the composition, by the intricate patterns of the holes "drawn" on the canvas – that intersect and then follow their own direction, like an elegant dance. A universe that explodes with magic and creative talent, of exceptional quality.
Only canvas, colour and holes: for a masterpiece that came into your life like a special gift, and continues to fascinate you at every glance. And the back? Even that manages to excite me! Because Fontana has this unique talent: he knows how to offer you a thousand facets of the same, simple/complex means of expression. If you have just fallen in love with one of his works, which you have made your own, and then immediately afterwards you see another canvas, another of his sculptures, you are back where you started: you would like to own that too. Insatiable, someone is truly insatiable (why am I speaking generically?): someone has a thirst for art capable of enriching existence, of making one feel in harmony with the universe.
Fontana gets inside you, fascinates you irrevocably, establishes himself inside you and becomes a subtle illness, able to make you dream. New horizons open up in your mind, and you pursue, in this red constellation, the pulsation of blood in veins, the dance of a mating dragonfly, the discovery of an unknown cosmos, where writing is made of holes, and the whole composition contains a specific message consisting of words. What has this to do with Fontana's canvas? Nothing, of course. It has to do with the viewer who wants to make his mind gallop, go beyond, even, the reality/ dimension discovered by Fontana. A game to render your relationship with the work even more intimate and unique.
Only canvas, colour and holes: for a masterpiece that came into your life like a special gift, and continues to fascinate you at every glance. And the back? Even that manages to excite me! Because Fontana has this unique talent: he knows how to offer you a thousand facets of the same, simple/complex means of expression. If you have just fallen in love with one of his works, which you have made your own, and then immediately afterwards you see another canvas, another of his sculptures, you are back where you started: you would like to own that too. Insatiable, someone is truly insatiable (why am I speaking generically?): someone has a thirst for art capable of enriching existence, of making one feel in harmony with the universe.
Fontana gets inside you, fascinates you irrevocably, establishes himself inside you and becomes a subtle illness, able to make you dream. New horizons open up in your mind, and you pursue, in this red constellation, the pulsation of blood in veins, the dance of a mating dragonfly, the discovery of an unknown cosmos, where writing is made of holes, and the whole composition contains a specific message consisting of words. What has this to do with Fontana's canvas? Nothing, of course. It has to do with the viewer who wants to make his mind gallop, go beyond, even, the reality/ dimension discovered by Fontana. A game to render your relationship with the work even more intimate and unique.