Lucio Fontana, Spheres
1957, terracotta
Deepening
Beginning in 1929 Fontana tackled ceramic sculpture in a process that saw important evolutions. He began in Albisola in 1935 at the Manifattura Mazzotti, where he mainly produced still lifes and figures of an expressionistic nature, almost a prelude to his subsequent informal research. Enchanted by the dialectical relationship between matter, sign, space and colour, from 1948 the artist concentrated on spatial problems. The first “spatial ceramics” are dated 1949, the same date of the first “holes” on paper, then resumed in the fifties on ceramics.