Jef Verheyen

The Belgian ZERO artist Jef Verheyen (1932-1984) became known as the painter of light streams and colour spectra. He experimented not only with light, but also with movement and the invisible as means to evoke natural mechanisms and to reveal universal interrelationships between human beings and the surrounding world. He used geometric principles – his passion for geometry was born out of his interest in mathematics and (Greek) philosophy – as the basis for harmony. Verheyen never gave up on traditional media and materials such as the canvas, paint, and brushes to search for the essence of our nature.

Lucio Fontana

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°1899 †1968

Born in Rosario di Santa Fé,

Died in Varese,

The Argentine-Italian visual artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) has broadened and deepened the avant-garde of the mid-twentieth century with new concepts such as environments and Spatialism. His oeuvre consists mainly of abstract work; monochrome paintings and massive sculptures that he cuts into to add a spatial dimension. He calls this type of work work Concetto Spaziale or 'spatial concept'. Fontana brings image and space together by adding a visible intervention whereby the light becomes involved in the perception of the canvas or object. With Fontana there is no longer any question of different disciplines such as painting or sculpture, but rather of an integrated work that fuses elements of the installation (the artwork as a built-up object), the performance (the incision as action) and the environment (the artwork as environmental element).

Text: Hans Willemse
Translations: Michael Meert

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Major Unidentified Lucio Fontana Painting Authenticated After Decade of Research, 2014

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Coline Milliard

Concetto Spaziale, Natura, 1982

Lucio Fontana

Notebook, 1973

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

• 0576 • Hommage à Fontana, 1972

Madeleine Everaert, Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen

Concetto Spaziale: Attese

Lucio Fontana

Postcard from Lucio Fontana in Paris to Jef Verheyen, 1959

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

• 813 • Les arbres roses (Pour mon ami Fontana), 1967

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

Opening speech for the exhibition 'Lucio Fontana - Hermann Goepfert - Jef Verheyen' at Galerie Löhlr (21 April 1965), 1965

Hermann Goepfert, Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen, Galerie Loehr, Fritz Usinger

Leaflet 'Lucio Fontana - Hermann Goepfert - Jef Verheyen' in Galerie Christian Chruxin – situationen 60, Berlin, 1965

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen, Hermann Goepfert, Galerie situationen 60

• 0153 • Untitled, 1963

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Hermann Goepfert

• 0390 • Rêve de Möbius, 1962

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen

• 0437 • Le Jour, 1962

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen

Jef Verheyen and Lucio Fontana just before the opening of Fontana’s solo exhibition in Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, curated by Udo Kultermann, 1962

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen, Gerald Dauphin

• 0791 • Untitled, 1962

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, GAL, Geert Verbeke

Jef Verheyen's Liber Amicis, 1962

Jef Verheyen, Hermann Goepfert, Serge Largot, Nanda Vigo, Raymond Dauphin, Rochus Kowallek, Lucio Fontana, Gotthard Graubner, Jan van der Borgt, Maria Mara, Paul Ibou, Jos Macken, Frank-Ivo van Damme, Piet Sterckx, Christian Megert, Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Dominique Stroobant, Guy Stern, Lotte Lenya, Leon In den Kleef, Madeleine Everaert, Marlborough Gallery, Hergé, Roger Nellens, Hugues C. Pernath, The Antwerp Gallery , Albert Szukalski, Anselm Thürwächter, Galerie Bernard, Ivo Michiels, Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Guy Vaes, Vic Gentils, Adam Seide, Günther Uecker, Piero Manzoni

Publication of the exhibition 'Ceramiche di Fontana' in Galleria Pater, Milan, 1962

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen

Lucio Fontana (left) and Jef Verheyen posing before their collaborative work 'Le Jour' at the home of the collector Louis Bogaerts, Knokke, 12 November 1962, 1962

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen, Filip Tas, Louis Bogaerts

Le refuge insolite d'un homme d'affaires philosophe, 1961

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Louis Bogaerts, Eveline Schlumberger

Letter from Lucio Fontana to Jef Verheyen about friendship and artisthood (4 July 1961), 1961

Lucio Fontana, Jef Verheyen

Concetto Spaziale, 1960

Lucio Fontana

SE LIBERER EST L'ACTION DE L'ESPRIT INDIVIDUEL, 1959

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

Reproduction of 'L'air est plein de ta chaleur', 1959

Frank Philippi, Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

Detail of 'Hommage à Fontana', 1959

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Frank Philippi

Brief uit Milaan. Waar de avant-garde blijft voortbestaan, 1959

Jef Verheyen, Ivo Michiels, Lucio Fontana

• 0400 • Untitled (Pour Fontana), 1959

Jef Verheyen, Axel Vervoordt, Galerie Bernard, Lucio Fontana

Telegram from Roberto Crippa to Jef Verheyen (1 April 1958), 1958

Roberto Crippa, Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Antonio Recalcati, Edoardo Franceschini, Gianni Dova, Enrico Baj, Antonio Berni, Frank Philippi, Wim Van Gils

Concetto Spaziale, 1958

Lucio Fontana

• 0721 • L'air est plein de ta chaleur, 1958

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana

Journal with a.o. notes about the visit of Jef Verheyen to the studio of Lucio Fontana (February 1958), 1957

Jef Verheyen, Lucio Fontana, Mario Bionda, Roberto Crippa

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