{"id":25630,"date":"2017-09-13T10:32:34","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T08:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pirellihangarbicocca.org\/?page_id=25630\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T22:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T21:26:41","slug":"7-fontana-was-fascinated-by-the-first-rocket-launches-into-space","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pirellihangarbicocca.org\/en\/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-lucio-fontana\/7-fontana-was-fascinated-by-the-first-rocket-launches-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"7. Fontana was fascinated by the first rocket launches into space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t<\/h1>\n<h3>\n\t\t9 Things You May Not Know about Lucio Fontana\n\t<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web-assets-hangarbicocca.pirelli.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/7_Lucio_Fontana_Imm1.jpg\" alt=\"Fonte: Nasa https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1298.html\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"450\" width=\"705\" title=\"Fonte: Nasa https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1298.html \" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p><em>&#8220;Today we, the Spatialists, have escaped our cities, broken through our shell, our physical husk, and have looked at ourselves from above, photographing the Earth from flying rockets.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(Lucio Fontana,\u00a0<em>Spaziali, Secondo Manifesto spaziali<\/em>, 1948 in Enrico Crispolti,\u00a0<em>Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni,\u00a0<\/em>vol. I, p. 115, Skira, Milan 2006)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The first rocket launches into space<\/strong>\u00a0were carried out around the same time that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pirellihangarbicocca.org\/en\/9-things-you-may-not-know-about-lucio-fontana\/3-he-founded-the-spatialist-movement\/\"><strong>Spatialist movement<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0was taking shape. Aerospace research gained fresh impetus in 1946, when the first pictures of the Earth were taken from a rocket (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1298.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_1298.html<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>These photos, which were published in magazines like\u00a0<em>Life<\/em>\u00a0and shown in newsreels all over the world, had a deep impact on Fontana&#8217;s imagination and practice.<\/p>\n<p>In 1961, the artist also drew inspiration from man&#8217;s first voyages into space when conceiving his piece\u00a0<strong><em>Fonti di energia, soffitto al neon per &#8220;Italia 61&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>, as we are told by one of the architects who worked on the project, Anna Monti: &#8220;at our first meeting, we talked about the &#8216;nightmarish black sky&#8217; that the astronaut had seen.&#8221;\u00a0(Interview to Anna Monti, Milan, 2011 in Marinella Venanzi,\u00a0<em>Fontana e lo spazio.\u00a0<\/em><em>Aspetti innovativi dalle opere ambientali di Lucio Fontana<\/em>, p. 136, Venice, 2011-2012.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Things You May Not Know about Lucio Fontana &#8220;Today we, the Spatialists, have escaped our cities, broken through our shell, our physical husk, and have looked at ourselves from above, photographing the Earth from flying rockets.&#8221;\u00a0(Lucio Fontana,\u00a0Spaziali, Secondo Manifesto spaziali, 1948 in Enrico Crispolti,\u00a0Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni,\u00a0vol. 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