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Lucio utopia8/17/2023 The series of Tagli, one of the most important contributions to the history of contemporary art, is revolutionary, since it consists of an original interpretation of the artist’s gesture, which no longer remains on the surface, but penetrates the canvas. 117-18).Īrtwork: © Stephen Flavin / Artists Rights Society, New York and DACS, London 2022 He first started exploring the concept with the first Manifesto Blanco, in which he stated, “we don’t care if a gesture, once performed, lives for a moment or a millennium, since we are truly convinced that once performed it is eternal” ( First Spatialist Manifesto, 1947, reproduced in Enrico Crispolti et al. The Italian artist worked on five different manifestoes which paved the way for the genesis of “Spazialismo”, the art movement he founded in 1947. In this case, instead of the cool white tonality, Fontana opted for a luminous, fluorescent hue, that alludes to the vibrancy of the Sixties. A year prior to executing the present work, in 1966, he filled an entire room with all white works from the series Tagli at the Venice Biennale, stating that he found a way of “giving the spectator an impression of calm, cosmic rigour, of serenity in infinity” (Enrico Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogo Ragionato di Sculture, Dipinti, Ambientazioni,Vol I, Milan 2006, p. The present work is a vivid example of Fontana’s most recognised series and dates back to the years of the height of the artist’s international career. All rights reserved.Īrtwork: © Lucio Fontana/SIAE/DACS, London 2022 The 2022 film Un hombre de acción ( A Man of Action) was based on his life.Image: © Ugo Mulas © Ugo Mulas Heirs. The Basque filmmakers José María Goenaga and Aitor Arregi Galdos created Lucio, a 2007 documentary on Urtubia's life. Urtubia died in his home city of Paris, France on 18 July 2020, aged 89. Following the dismantling of the counterfeiting infrastructure, the French police were unable to recover the printing plates for the checks, forcing the City Bank and the French government to make a pact with Urtubia. The so-called "money recovery operations", of which the City Bank scam was a part, were used to collect of funds destined to support those who struggled and needed it. Hundreds of counterfeit traveler's checks were distributed throughout Europe and several Latin American countries between January 1980 and December 1982. He was one of the main participants in an action to raise funds for his political formation, based on a scam against the First National City Bank by forging traveler's checks with printing plates of which he was the author. In the words of Albert Boadella, "Lucio is a Quijote that did not fight against wind mills, but against a true giant". At times compared to Robin Hood, Urtubia carried out bank robberies and forgeries throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Lucio Urtubia Jiménez (1931–2020 ) was a Spanish anarchist known for his practice of expropriative anarchism through forgery.
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