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Venice:
Palazzo Franchetti – Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti - Franco
Fontana – Full Color exhibition. Franco Fontana’s Full Color exhbition,
until May 18, is his first major retrospective in Venice, with more than 130 photographs, tells the
story of this universally renowned photographer. The exhibition at, and sponsored by and at the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti at
Palazzo Franchetti on the Grand Canal was curated by Denis Curti. Bright colors, vibrant so as to appear
unreal. Compositions punctuated by lines and planes overlapping geometries
built on light.
Above. Franco Fontana - Los Angeles 2001.
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Franco Fontana – Full Color. Hyperreal
landscapes, more real than reality itself,
surreal, suspended, and often
impossible. Deceptive proportions in which there is no room for man. Human
figures revealed in the negative, sublimated into long shadows. Presence and
absence simultaneously. Bodies as landscapes, hills and plains and contours
anthropomorphic.These are the traits that lead immediately and unequivocally to
the visual language of Franco Fontana.
Above.
Franco Fontana – Puglia 1987.
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Franco
Fontana – New York 1986
Franco
Fontana
Basilicata
1975 – Basilicata - 1978 – Cortina 1978
Puglia
1987 – Basilicata 1986 – White Sand, New Mexico 1983