The Farnesina Collection welcomes the work “Quattro stagioni” [Four Seasons] (1974) by Franco Fontana (Modena, 1933).
The photography series consists of four rural landscapes, characterized by the original use of colour – bright and vivid – which combines with the interpretation of the natural environments through geometric shapes and essential lines.
Among the great masters of colour photography, since the 1960s Fontana has been depicting nature, objects, people, and cities, with particular aesthetic sensitivity and very original attention to formal and perceptive aspects, returning reality through very pictorial images, often almost abstract, in a perfect balance between light and colours.
As the artist explains, “with the help of colour, creativity becomes synonymous with a movement which generates life. But colour is also a physiological feeling, an emotional and psychological interpretation, a way and means of knowledge, and it is therefore fundamental, especially in photography.”
Franco Fontana, “Quattro stagioni”, 1974
4 4 photographs, chromogenic print, 49.5 x 69.5 cm each
Roma, Cotroneo Collection ©Franco Fontana
