index

drawings

video

 

FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage

works on bronze, on paper, in porcelain, on video - see below

 

k..... s

s

 

As if working for a space agency like NASA, the Argentine/Italian artist
Lucio Fontana entitled nearly all his post-fascist works – and he is only
known for those – SPATIAL CONCEPT, or concetto spaziale. While on an art
fair in Italy, I discovered his little known series of works on tinfoil
paper, carta stagnola, fell in love with it and wanted to acquire one
thanks to the promised money of some sales. The dealer accepted the offer
but a day later unexpectedly just sold it to somebody else who paid
up-front in cash.

This made me so angry that I decided to just copy the pieces with the same
– non-aging tinfoil material - and inscribe them with Italian and English
curse words. I not only found some release, but also some pleasure
producing these works. Later, I started to learn more about Fontana’s work
and replicated this strategy in porcelain. In order to really express my
rage, I fabricated a series of cups, covered them with foul language and
smashed them forcefully on a wall for a short video.

Thanks to the fact that Fontana entitled almost everything just spatial
concept I felt entitled to do the same and extend it also to his bronze
pieces. Like Fontana’s cuts, ruptures and pierced holes in his two
dimensional works, his bronze pieces, he called Spatial Concept Nature, do
too have something aggressive and subversive in its formal appearance.
Their extremities and caves can easily be interpreted in a reduced
aggressive phallocentric way. While I am writing this, 6 different
versions of my interpretation of them are at a bronze foundry. They too
will be called Concept of rage, Nature, Mother Fucker; Concept of Rage,
Nature, Fucking Bitch; Concept of Rage, Nature, Fucking Dick, and so on.

Can I be an angry man ? Sometimes. But who isn’t. Hence, I do anger
control work since we are living in a very unjust society that creates
enough situations where anger seems to be the only answer. Fontana himself
(1899 – 1968) experienced two World Wars and was working as a darling of
Italian Fascist leader Mussolini. Collective anger and chauvinist madness
was for sure part of Fontana’s historic world and might also have
contributed to the fact that he got so interested in space and spatial
concepts. Opposite to him, I try to stay on the ground: I stay with angry
forms and angry language; I smash porcelain, destroy and kick books,
scream klassenkampf /class struggle, I insult gods. Fontana is only
substitute hero for me – that is as far as it goes with my adoration. Viva
Fontana, and I assume that he does live on in these Concept of Anger
works.

 

 

 

STAGNIOLO / ALLUMINUM FOIL

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, PIECE OF SHIT, 1960s/2012
25 x 29.4 cmb, blue aluminum foil, FRAMED

l

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, COCKSUCKER, 1960s/2012

 30 x 25 cm  - silver aluminum foil

l

 

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, FUCKING ASS, 1960s/2012 

30.5 x 23.5 cm - SILVER aluminum foil

k

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, FUCKING DICK, 1960s/2012 (this one considerably larger than the others)

K

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, MERDA, 1960s/2012

35 x 25 cm  alluminum foil (stagnolo)

s

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA  / CONCEPT OF RAGE, MOTHER FUCKER,  1960s/2012

- silver aluminum foil, 35 x 26 cm (one cut),

k

see more of these below:

 

 

 

PORCELAIN

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, mother fucker, 1950s /1960s/ 2011

23 x 25 cm x 2.5 cm - porcelain, platin paint

l

 

l

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, psycho, 1950s /1960s/ 2011

28.5 x 28.5 cm x 5 cm - porcelain, platin paint

l

l

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, you piece of shit, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

s

see more of these below:

 

 

 

BRONZE

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, crack whore, 1960/1961/ 2011

cm 28x22x23, bronze, edition 1/4 (approx.  15 - 18 kg)

L

d

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, asshole, 1960/1961/ 2011
cm 27x22x22, bronze, edition 1/4 (approx.  15 - 18 kg)

s

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, cunt 1960/1961/ 2011
cm 24x27x25, bronce, edition 1/4

s

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, fucking dick, 1960/1961/ 2011

32x24x23 cm, bronze, edition 1/4 (approx. 15 - 18 kg)

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, mother fucker, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

approx. 28x22x23 cm, bronze, edition 1/4 (approx.  15 - 18 kg)

s

s

fucking bitch (24x21x22 cm)
crack whore (28x22x23)
asshole (27x22x22)
cunt(24x27x25)
fucking dick 32x24x23

 

 

 

L

 

SEE MORE BELOW

 

 

 

 

VIDEO

 

more ceramics: for throwing at a wall.. (video coming soon)

SEE FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, video 2 min (English and Itallian)

italian version

 

 

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL - concetto spaciale / CONCEPT OF RAGE

video FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, video 2 min (English and Itallian)

s

s

s

s

s

 

L

 

more ceramics to come

s

 

 

MORE BELOW

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L

 

s

d

s

s

s

s

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, fucking bitch, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

s

s

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, asshole, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

s

s

s

s

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, cunt, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

s

s

s

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, mother fucker, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

s

s

s

s

s

 

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, nature, fucking dick, 1960/1961/ 2011 - bronze

s

s

s

s

s

 

s  THE REAL STUFF

LUCIO FONTANA
Concetto Spaziale "Natura" (Spatial Concept "Nature")
1961
Bronze
Overall: 33 x 38.5 x 34 inches (83.8 x 97.8 x 86.4 cm)

 

 

PORCELAIN

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, mother fucker, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

platin is like silver, hence like a mirror - not so easy to photograph

s

s

 

 

 

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, you piece of shit, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

s

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, bastard, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

s

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, psycho, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

s

s

 

 

fontanaganahl, concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, crack whore, 1950s /1960s/ 2011 - porcelain, platin paint

d

s

 

 

 

 

 

ALLUMINUM FOIL /PAPER - STAGNOLO PAPER

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA  / CONCEPT OF RAGE, ASSHOLE, 1960s/2012
35 x 25 cm - blue aluminum foil,
(6 holes)

s

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA  / CONCEPT OF RAGE, MOTHER FUCKER, 1960s/2012
35 x 26 cm (one cut),  - silver aluminum foil

S

 

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA  / CONCEPT OF RAGE, FUCKING BASTARD, 1960s/2012
25 cm x 35 cm - blue aluminum foil
(4 cuts),  horizontal 

l

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA  / CONCEPT OF RAGE, SON OF A BITCH, 1960s/2012
 27.5 x 29 cm - silver aluminum foil,
(3 cuts), horizontal 

l

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL CONCETTO DI RABBIA, 2960s/2011

35 x 25 cm  alluminum foil (stagnolo)s

s

s

s

s

s

s

l

s

more images to come

 

 

SOME ENGLISH ONCE... ... might sound familar... (people can get also angry in English)

l

l

j

j

s

s

 

 

 

VIDEO

 

more ceramics: for throwing at a wall.. (video coming soon)

SEE FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, video 2 min (English and Itallian)

italian version

 

 

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL - concetto spaciale / CONCEPT OF RAGE

video FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, video 2 min (English and Itallian)

s

s

s

s

s

 

L

 

more ceramics to come

s

s

s    s

k   s

 

s   s

 

s    s

 

s   s

 

j    s

 

h   s

 

k

 

 

 

 

 

DRAWINGS / INK ON PAPER

 

FONTANAGANAHL, CONCEPT OF RAGE, NATURE, MOTHER FUCKER 1960/ 2012

a3 (297 × 420 mm) Ink / pencil on paper

L

 

L

 

S

 

s

L

K

sS

S

S

S

 

 

 

below: drawings for a bronze sculpture

FONTANAGANAHL, CONCEPT OF RAGE, NATURE, FUCKING BITCH 1960/ 2012

a3 ink / pencil on paper

 

S

 

S

L

Ö

S

 

 

 

 

 

Preparation Drawings, A4

s

s

s

s

s

s

all drawigns are A4, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

below: drawings for a bronze sculpture

FONTANAGANAHL, CONCEPT OF RAGE, NATURE, CUNT 1961/ 2012

a3 ink / pencil on paper

 

s

s

s

L

L

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

production images

s  s

s   s

s     s

 

s

 

 

FONTANAGANAHL / concetto di rabbia / concept of rage, video 2 min (English and Itallian)

italian version