DESCUBRE
February 2021
Starting February 17th, 2021, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents the installation of Lucio Fontana’s Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial (Struttura al neon per la IX Triennale di Milano), to remain permanently on view in the Museum’s Atrium for the next three years. This exceptional presentation results from the partnership between the Fondazione Lucio Fontana in Milan and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Installed in the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao’s Atrium, the complexity of Neon Structure for the Ninth Milan Triennial finds an exceptional interlocutor in the building designed by Frank Gehry, whose sketches scrawled on paper are reminiscent of Fontana’s spatial arabesques. Because of its luminosity and sheer size, the impressive neon plays with perspective and distance, intensifying viewers’ experience of the architecture, which is perceptible both inside and outside the Museum. The presentation of this work, in a location of great significance for the coming years, accounts for the relevance of Fontana’s oeuvre in the constellation of Guggenheim Museums, and provides a brilliant corollary to the retrospective exhibition Lucio Fontana. On the Threshold that was held in Bilbao in 2019. Curator: Manuel Cirauqui
