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Franco Fontana

Overview

Franco Fontana (Modena 1933) is a pioneer of colour photography who started his artistic research in the 60’s – a decade before colour photography began to be accepted as a creative medium – and has devoted his entire career to developing his own unique visual language. Electing as subjects all scapes – landscapes, waterscapes, urbanscapes – Fontana extracts from them the essential information in a process of increasing abstraction, creating fields of colours that have often been compared to those of abstract expressionists such as Rothko and Newman.

“Landscapes that on first glance appear to be geometric triangles of subtle coloration, on closer inspection reveal these shapes as demarcating fields of wheat, flowers, and up-turned soil, lending his images a dimension beyond the purely aesthetic” (Naomi Rosenblum).

Fontana has often described his process of compressing an image taken from 3-dimensional reality into the a bi-dimensional plane as an act of violence that forces the viewer to recognise each image not as a mirror of reality but as an autonomous entity, a self-contained picture.

Featured Exhibitions

  • FRANCO FONTANA: LANGUAGE OF COLOUR

    16/06 — 04/09/21

  • FRANCO FONTANA: POLAROIDS

    06/05 — 04/09/21

FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Arizona, Phoenix, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Asfalto, London, 1995
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Baia delle Zagare, 1970
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Landscape, Basilicata, 1978
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Basilicata, Italia, 1995
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

New York, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Monte Sant Angelo fond, 1965 
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Asfalto, 1968 
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Rabat, 1981
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Piscina, 1984
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Hong Kong, 1990
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Autostrada, 1975
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Emilia Romagna, 1985
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Havana, 2017
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Los Angeles, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

New York, 1995
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Los Angeles, 1990
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

New York, 1997
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Riccione, 1961
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Ibiza, 1992
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Ibiza, 1992
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

L.A. 1991
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

L.A. 1990
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Landscape, Italy, 1978
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Landscape, Italy, 1987
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

New York, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Orizzonte, Comacchio Italy 1976
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

San Francisco, 2008
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Seascape, Ibiza, 1972
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FRANCO FONTANA

FRANCO FONTANA

Texas, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Venice, 1990
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

San Francisco, 1979
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Untitled, 1980
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Colonia, 1980
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Untitled, 1982
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

New York, 1999
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Taipei, 1994
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Torino, 1999
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Untitled, 1980
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FRANCO FONTANA
FRANCO FONTANA

Untitled, 1980
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