This video explores the impact of Lucio Fontana's only trip to New York, which took place in 1961. His experience in the city had a profound effect on his artistic practice; drawing upon his exposure to the gleaming surfaces and great engineering feats of the skyscrapers, following his American sojourn, Fontana introduced new materials into his artworks, primarily metals that alluded to the magnificence of the urban architecture he discovered in New York. The works were a significant development in Fontana's oeuvre, and this video highlights the role of New York in this period of the artist's career.
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