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...Emerging from Darkness: Faith, Emotion and the Body in the Baroque’, Hamilton Gallery A significant display of European Baroque art centred around three female painters: Artemisia Gentileschi, Lavinia Fontana...
...His Infinito, for instance, an 18mm wide strip of light that cuts across a room, is a nod to Italian-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana’s slashed canvases....
...The artists whose work I would collect if I could include Louise Bourgeois, Pablo Picasso – particularly his black-and-white paintings – and Lucio Fontana....
...“I think of the texture a bit like a Lucio Fontana painting. It’s all white but then there’s the cut in the middle. It creates such interesting depth.”...
...Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks, Hutchinson £20, 352 pages Michael Arditti is author of ‘The Anointed’, published by Arcadia Books Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...The result was a paperback in 1979, imaginatively titled The Wine Book, published by Fontana with an accompanying hardback by A&C Black....
...Ben Brown Fine Arts combines two blue-chip artists, Lucio Fontana and Alexander Calder to trace the development of modernism between 1940 and 1969. Their works are priced up to €3m....
...Only Lilli Cooper seems to lack a bit of comic flair here as Dorothy’s co-star (and Michael’s love interest), Julie Nichols, though she does provide Fontana with a generous foil....
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...A show of fine works by Alberto Burri and Lucio Fontana at Tornabuoni Art opened in London last week and is due to run until March 30, the day after the UK is set to leave the EU....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Lucio Fontana....
...Artists such as Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni had seen a huge surge in demand through the first half of this decade....
...There was Michael Johnson, whose filmic collages are halfway between Pop Art and graphic novel and one of whose illustrations here is a stunning stripy tour de force....
...Contemporary Asian art also features prominently, with Yoshitomo Nara at Whitestone Gallery and ink paintings by Qin Feng at Michael Goedhuis....
...Bernard Fontana, chief executive of Holcim, said they had reported “robust” results with an “increase in financial performance despite a different weather pattern and some volume declines compared to a very...
...The opening showed just what a voracious collector Salamé is, mainly of contemporary art, although when he started his buying spree 15 years ago he acquired Italian modernism by artists such as Lucio Fontana...
...Additional reporting by Michael Stothard...
...www.louisvuitton.com … MICHAEL KORS Who: Karmen Pedaru and Simon Nessman, photographed by Mario Testino....
...Each time, the market steps closer to the cliff edge,” while collector Michael Orvitz told Bloomberg after Christie’s sale: “For a moment last night I thought I was in the commodities market....
...Brazilian artist Adriana Varejao splits a canvas in the manner of spatialist Lucio Fontana then fills the chasms with blood-red gore....
...Designer Michael Wolfson is doing the interior of the gallery at 4 Clifford Street and among the works for sale is a “Teatrino” from 1967, at around £750,000....
...“We’re not unaware of the financial climate,” says Michael Findlay of Acquavella, “and while we’re not lemmings, the absence of our colleagues in the same field was also a factor....
...In his manifestos, Fontana expresses himself in language that is barely clearer than mud....
...Still being worked on is a necklace by Michael Craig-Martin with a lightbulb outlined in gold wire. “I see it as a small sculpture,” Craig-Martin says. So does Guinness....
...She looked almost as happy as Fontana, four hours earlier. adrian.michaels@ft.com The next and last Olympics diary will appear on Sunday...
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