“Attesa” is a word filled with meaning and nuance, closely tied to the history of the gallery. Lucio Fontana used it to designate the slashes in his celebrated monochrome canvases. 

Rather than a passive waiting, the word evokes a gaze turned toward the future, a kind of hope, a new modernity: another way of conceiving a work of art, a radically different place for art within society.

It is this foundational term that serves as the starting point for the exhibition imagined by Ilaria Bignotti for Tornabuoni Art Paris. The curator uses Fontana’s famous works, which form a core part of the gallery’s program, as the prism through which to explore, reactivate, and reinterpret the entire collection. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue featuring an essay by Ilaria Bignotti, published by Forma Edizioni, Florence.