Franco Fontana. Synthesis

"The purpose of art is to make the invisible visible"

When: March 23 – August 25, 2019

Where: Civic Gallery of Modena
Santa Margherita Palace
Canalgrande Street 103, Modena

Garden Palace
Cavour Street 2, Modena

MATA – Former Tobacco Factory
Tobacco Factory Street 83, Modena

Modena pays homage to Franco Fontana, one of its most important and internationally renowned artists.

There are only a few days left to visit "Sintesi", the exhibition that covers over sixty years of Franco Fontana's career and retraces his connections with some of the most important authors of twentieth-century photography.

The exhibition is divided into two sections.

The first, curated by Diana Baldon, director of the Fondazione Modena Arti Visive, in the Sala Grande of Palazzo Santa Margherita and in the Palazzina dei Giardini, represents the true synthesis of Fontana's artistic journey, through thirty works created between 1961 and 2017 and selected from the artist's extensive photographic archive.

The second section, curated by Franco Fontana himself, hosted at the MATA, offers approximately one hundred and twenty photographs selected from the collection of 1600 works that the artist donated since 1991 to the Municipality of Modena and to the Galleria Civica.