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Tours
A Curatorial Eye
Join Guggenheim Museum curators for tours of Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York. Tours held on the following Tuesdays @ 11 AM.

OCT 24
Karole Vail, Assistant Curator

DEC 5
Luca Massimo Barbero, Associate Curator, Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Public Programs

Mixing Fontana: A Concert by Ensemble Dissonanzen
SAT OCT 14 @ 7:30 PM
This concert program features pieces influenced and inspired by Fontana, including compositions by John Cage, Claudio Lugo (inspired by Goffredo Petrassi), Bruno Maderna, Luigo Nono, Goffredo Petrassi, and Nicola Sani, performed by guitarist Marco Cappelli, pianist Ciro Longobardi, saxophonist Claudio Lugo, flautist Tommaso Rossi, and narrator Enzo Salomone.

This concert is sponsored by the Presidenza della Regione Campania and the Regione del Veneto. Hotel accommodations provided by the Jolly Hotel Madison Towers. The museum graciously thanks the Italian Cultural Institute for its assistance. Image rights kindly provided by the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

Curator & Artist Talk: Luca Massimo Barbero and Richard Tuttle
TUE DEC 5 @ 6:30 PM
Luca Massimo Barbero, curator of Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York, and American artist Richard Tuttle discuss punctuation in time and space and other visual concepts.

ABOVE LEFT: Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, New York 14, 1962. Lacerations and scratches on aluminum, 77 3/16 x 37 13/16 inches [62 ME 3]. Courtesy Fondazione Marconi, Milan. © 2006 Fondazione Lucio Fontana


ABOVE RIGHT: Lucio Fontana, Concetto spaziale, Venice Was All Gold (Concetto spaziale, Venezia era tutta d’oro), 1961. Oil and cut on canvas, 59 1/16 x 59 1/16 inches [61 O 38]. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. © 2006 Fondazione Lucio Fontana