Franco Fontana
Simona Confalonieri
Italy, 2006, 24’
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English
In the 1960s Franco Fontana invented a new, unique language that was a worldwide success: they were almost abstract images, with strong, exaggerated colors and sharp, marked lines.
In the 1960s Franco Fontana invented a new, unique language that was a worldwide success: they were almost abstract images, with strong, exaggerated colors and sharp, marked lines.
SYNOPSIS
Research on color, form, space, and light has in Franco Fontana one of its greatest representatives. The human figure is practically absent in his work; instead, chromatic and geometric themes predominate. The choice of subjects, whether rural, industrial or urban landscapes, is always secondary in his work compared to the two protagonists of his photographs: color and geometry. It is not the representation of reality that interests him, but seeing it “in a different way, with an oblique eye.”
His works have been presented in more than 400 exhibitions, published in the most prestigious magazines, are exhibited in the world’s greatest museums and are featured in at least 60 books.
CREDITS
Director Simona Confalonieri
Director of photography Guido Wilhelm
Camera operator Guido Wilhelm, Lucia Errichetti
Sound engineer Massimo Zerbinati
Editing Lucia Errichetti
Post-production Lucia Errichetti
Production manager Michaela Cipriani
Production assistants Caterina Catalano, Monica Tempestilli
Music Flipper Music
Consultant Denis Curti
Produced by Renata Tardani (Miro Film) for Sitcom
With Franco Fontana, Giuliana Scimé, Uti Fontana, Walter Guadagnini
