MONDO GALERIA presents for the first time in Madrid an individual exhibition by the color photographer: Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933). The photos by this prolific Italian photographer present us his own world, created within the parameters set by the photographic lens.
The composition of color is the first thing that jumps out in these images that make up a timeless journey through his work.
In the 60's Fontana built its imagery within the Italian countryside and expands into Europe first and then into the American urban landscape. Finally he comes during the last decades to the female body and later to classical sculpture photography which is still photographing today. His work is part of the best international collections including the MoMA in New York, the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris or elIVAM of Valencia.
This exhibition in collaboration with Sabrina Raffaghello Contemporary Art and the Italian Institute of Culture Madrid presents us the work of a photographer who created a nonexistent photographic discourse before himself. Dominating the elements featuring photograph to distort the world, Fontana creates a series of abstract landscapes (in the beginning) and stories full of empty (later) that could send us to a site / place among American literature and Raymond Carver theoretical musings of Italo Calvino.
Kept but casual compositions, small strokes of what we all have in front of us and just a few can see are what give his work a familiarity full of sophistication. The beauty in his work is that the complex appears as easy, and abstract thinking enters the eye as rarely loaded configuration.
Dates.- 20th February to 4th April 2015.
Venue.- MONDO GALERÍA, San Lucas St. 9, Madrid, Spain.
