Franco Fontana was born in Modena, Italy, 9 December 1933.... (read more)

Current and forthcoming events showcasing the work and career of Franco Fontana.

My best-known work is on the natural landscape. I try to isolate in space and time all that is normally mixed up with an inifinity of details. Extracting a few essential elements from the entirety that presents itself to the human eye is one of my inner requirements: to achieve a harmonic unity through the elimination of all disturbing natural elements... (read more)

It is immediately evident that this series of photographs, this urban testimony, has little to in common with Fontana's traditional landscapes, apart from the use of color and light... (read more)