Franco Fontana. Paesaggio a confronto

Through 42 works, the exhibition allows to retrace the highlights of a creative story begun in the late sixties and continued with extraordinary success and continuous innovation up today.
The show revolves around the theme of landscape, the most famous and most frequented by Fontana was in fact with a few clicks now historic Fountain has emerged internationally as one of the "inventors" of color photography, namely as one of the first photographers capable of expressing a thought with language had all the color. His landscapes are on the border between representation and abstraction, through a high sensitivity color and an equally remarkable compositional abilities. The natural forms become colored backgrounds and amazing view becomes vision.
The exhibition is supplemented by images from other cycles of Fontana, the asphalt, the shadows, urban landscapes, particularly those relating to his travels in the United States, where the photographer was compared with metropolitan areas, with the surprising American light and its landscapes.
Biography

Franco Fontana was born in Modena in 1933, where he still lives and works .
His works are now preserved in major museums worldwide, including MoMA in New York, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, the Australian National Gallery in Melbourne, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the GAM of Turin, the Museum and Art Moderne in Paris, the Kunsthaus Museum in Zurich, Victoria Albert Museum in London.
He has exhibited in solo and group around the world: in his most recent exhibitions, remember the anthologies to the ruins of Verona in 2000, that the GAM in Turin in 2001, at Palazzo Reale in Milan in 2004, participation the major Italian group dedicated to photography as the one just completed at the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie in Paris, the staff at the Art Museum of Buenos Aires in 2006.
He has published over 60 books in 2003 was published a monograph with an introduction of the historical retrospective of photography ADColeman.
It is noteworthy to quote a famous Italo Zannier in the publication "History and technique of photography" Laterza Ed: A world also seems unlikely that the image of Franco Fontana, where color is essential so as to forget that it existed black and white photography, with which you do not even try to, because the color here is not an addition to the light and shade, but becomes a different way of seeing. Fountain seems to have freed those needs that have characterized the spectacular color photography - even his - the last decade, accepting, finally, the technique of color as an inevitable milestone in the evolution of photography.
In 2006 he received the Honorary Doctorate in Design from the Politecnico di Torino.