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“Ambienti/Environments” is focused on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm
of installation art, with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali—seen together for
the first time—that highlights the farsighted, innovative genius of this twentieth-century
master. The Ambienti spaziali rooms and corridors that the artist began to conceive and
design in the late 1940s, were almost always destroyed once the exhibition was over;
they are Fontana’s most experimental yet least-known works, due to their ephemeral
nature. Some of the environments on view have been reconstructed for the first time since
the artist’s death through the research of art historian Marina Pugliese and art conservator
Barbara Ferriani, co-curators of the show, with the collaboration of Fondazione
Lucio Fontana. Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina, 1899, – Varese, Italy, 1968) was one
of the most influential Italian artists of the mid-twentieth century. Fontana dedicated
his entire career to investigating the concepts of space, light, the void and the cosmos.
