Exhibition of Corsin Fontana / Matias Spescha in Trun

Corsin Fontana's dialogue with Matias Spescha turns entirely to her drawing and graphic work, which is characterized by the search for a radical reduction of the visual language to the essential elements.

Corsin Fontana has a special relationship with Matias Spescha, which is closely linked to his self-image as an artist. At that time a secondary school student, he met him for the first time in school lessons, to which the artist was invited to bring art closer to the young people. Impressed by the person and his work, the young Corsin felt strengthened in his artistic vocation.

In Corsin Fontana's work, concrete imagery dominates in monochrome and strictly linear prints and drawings. His large-format oil chalk drawings have an almost sculptural character despite their simplicity due to the impasto application of paint. They move within clearly defined parameters that divide the pictorial space with vertical and horizontal lines, thus giving it its unmistakable rhythm.

In Mathias Spescha's work, prints played a central role in his work as early as the early 1960s. Under the influence of experiences with space-related sculpture, the formal language is gradually reduced to a minimum, while in later creative periods the two-dimensionality of the surface is broken up by a new, virtual third dimension. In this way, Spescha's basic theme, that of dealing with space, can be vividly experienced in the development of his prints.

In the case of both artists, the limitation of the means of design is striking, especially the reduction to a certain colourfulness and clear lines that are oriented towards the edge of the sheet. And in both, abstraction paradoxically combines with a sensual experience that results from the physically tangible relationship between color, light, and space. In addition, both Spescha and Fontana have clear parameters in the lines and the resulting rhythms.

The exhibition brings together various drawings and prints as well as two large oil paintings from Fontana's oeuvre with Spescha's significant prints, which span almost half a century.