Lucio Fontana exhibition in Wuppertal: The first cut is the deepest – culture

Italian artist Lucio Fontana is a key figure in postwar modernism, but he also glorified fascism. A retrospective in Wuppertal now shows that the Second World War was not a turning point for him.

Many people only associate the name Lucio Fontana with the slit, monochrome canvas. This is understandable, because Fontana’s cut was, to quote Robert Gernhardt’s poem about Kazimir Malevich’s “Black Square”, “not an image, it was an act”. Fontana is still celebrated today for this emancipation from two-dimensionality, this blurring of the boundaries between painting and sculpture. His works achieve top prices on the art market.

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