Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York November 14, 2006

'Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York' is the first major exhibition devoted to the artist in the United States since the Guggenheim's retrospective in 1977. The exhibition introduces two rare bodies of work from 1961 created around the cities of Venice and New York, presented together for the first time. The Venice paintings, shimmering surfaces in silver and gold recalling the mosaics of St. Mark's and the city's Byzantine splendor, are juxtaposed with the New York works, giant sheets of shiny and scratched copper, cut through by dynamic vertical gestures that conjure the force of New York and its powerful electric skyline.