11 October 2025 - 02 March 2026
From 11 October 2025 to 2 March 2026 Venice Venue: Peggy Guggenheim Collection Address: Dorsoduro 701 Opening hours: Wed – Mon 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Tue closed Curator: Sharon Hecker Information phone: +39 041 2405 411 Official website: http://www.guggenheim-venice.it
From 11 October 2025 to 2 March 2026, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection presents Mani-Fattura: The Ceramics of Lucio Fontana, the first-ever museum solo exhibition devoted exclusively to the ceramic works of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), one of the most innovative—and in his own way irreverent—artists of the 20th century. Although Fontana is best known for his iconic slashed and punctured canvases of the 1950s and 1960s, this exhibition highlights a lesser-known yet essential aspect of his oeuvre: his work with clay, which began in Argentina in the 1920s and continued throughout his life. Curated by art historian Sharon Hecker, this is the first monographic exhibition to offer an in-depth examination of Fontana’s ceramic production. As Hecker notes: “Long associated more with craft than with art, Fontana’s ceramics are now receiving renewed attention thanks to the revived interest in this material in contemporary art.”
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