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Giampietro Fontana

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Giampietro Fontana
Born17 February 1934
Turin
💀Died6 April 2020
Geneva6 April 2020
🏳️ NationalityItalian
💼 Occupation
🌐 Websitehttps://giampietrofontana.com

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Giampietro Fontana, also Pietro Fontana ([Turin], 17 February 1934 - Thônex, 6 April 2020)[1] was an Italian and Swiss painter. His work illustrates the interferences and contaminations between architecture and painting, particularly the motif of the Tower of Babel.[2][3]

Background and training[edit]

Gp Fontana was born in Turin in 1934. His father was an officer in the Italian Royal Navy (Regia Marina) under Mussolini’s regime. After the second World war, the son was enlisted in the Naval College of Genua (Accademia navale). Gp Fontana stayed five years in the Italian Navy. He served on a torpedo-boat destroyer (caccia torpediniere) that cruised in the Mediterranean Sea. After the Navy his decision to migrate to Lausanne, Switzerland becomes effective in 1961. He finds a job in in an office of architecture and completes an apprenticeship of dessinateur architecte. His training in painting is both auto-didactical and academical. He attends courses in academic life drawing at the Département d’architecture of the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne.[4]

Life and works[edit]

In 1981, under the supervision of Conrad André Beerli, Gp Fontana defends at the EPFL in Lausanne a PhD thesis on Architecture italienne des années soixante en Italie, at the EPFL in Lausanne.[5] The output is a sequence of 24 crayon polychrome drawings in a 70 x 70 cm square size. Each graphical composition documents an experimental moment in the development of Italian architecture in the Nineteenth Sixties. In 1991, Anne-Françoise Comte, a Swiss lawyer working in Geneva marries Gp Fontana.

Exhibitions and public commission[edit]

1980: Musée cantonal des beaux-arts in Lausanne, Les Portraits de Groupe. 1984: Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, Überall ist Babylon.[6] 1989: Musée des arts décoratifs Lausanne, Babylones vaudoises.[7] 1991: University of Lausanne, Allégories pharmeutiques, Five decorative panels in the new School of Chemistry.

References[edit]

  1. SIK-ISEA Recherche, https://recherche.sik-isea.ch
  2. Giampietro Fontana, Babylones & Allégories, Textes de François Neyroud, Christophe Calame, Philippe Junod, Mario Botta, Conrad André Beerli, Jacques Gubler, Alberto Sartoris, Sylviane Roche, Françoise Jaunin, Editions de la Tour, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, 1991.
  3. Helmut Minkowski, Vermutungen über den Turm zu Babel, Luca Verlag, Freren, 1991, pp. 99-100.
  4. The documents left by Giampietro Fontana are sheltered by his wife, Anne-Françoise Comte Fontana in Geneva, Switzerland, and by his nephew, Maurizio Bacchio, at Castellamonte, TO, Italy. The biographical elements provided in this chapter are the result of an analysis operated by the art historian Jacques Gubler. Gubler’s research is due to be published in Lausanne.
  5. Architecture italienne des années 1960-Infoscience, https://doi.org/10.5075/epfl-thesis-364
  6. Überall ist Babylon. Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, https://swisspostershop.com
  7. Ebinger’sVintage Arts Poster, Babylones Vaudoises Musée des arts décoratifs, Lausanne, https://www.ebinger-vintage-art-poster.com/en/plakat/babylones-vaudoises/

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