Just in from the Jacques Marie Mage Spring Summer 2020 is Fontana, a beautiful titanium frame, inspired by, and named after renowned artist and sculptor, Lucio Fontana.
Fontana was born in 1865 in Argentina to Italian parents. His father was Luigi Fontana, the sculptor. Fontana founded a new vision of art in Milan in 1947, known as Spatial Conceptions, a vision that stated that art should embrace science and technology.
Fontana’s most famous works are a series of paintings consisting of Holes (Buchi) or Cuts (Tagli) in monochrome paintings, thus rendering three dimensional the representation of the two dimensional surface and smashing the boundaries that limit it. In his Technical Manifesto of Spatialism, Fontana outlined the need for "the picture to come out of its frame, the sculpture out of its glass case”. Over the course of his career Fontana experimented with many different media; sculpture, ceramics, neon installations, ceilings and Spatial Environments (Ambienti Spaziali), or rooms that could be walked through. His Spatial Environments went on to influence important Italian and European Art movements in the 1960s and 1970s, such as the Gruppo T from Milan and the German Group Zero.
A contemporary take on the classic Phantos shape, the Fontana frame is round with a flat browline. The sunglasses come in three colour ways: Rose Gold with Bronze lenses, Gold Antique with Green lenses and Silver with Light Blue lenses. The hairline engravings pay homage to his subtly slashed canvases.
