Alcamo, 1976.
The dimension in which Francesco Fontana’s artistic experience matures is strongly intimate, almost a sort of process that the artist makes to give a direction to his work, is almost a verification of the condition of his own existence.
In the works of Francesco Fontana the matrices of a research made of introspection, observation, doubts, resolutions and renewed certainties appear clear.
A work in which drawing and painting are nourished by technique, by an ever more dry, linear and even symbolic language, until it becomes gradually closed, almost pure color, painting that becomes matter, abstraction.
Francesco Fontana spent his childhood in the Sicilian countryside learning to observe the colors and shapes of a unique landscape.
Always attracted to algebra, he performs technical studies.
He later understands that his creative intelligence does not accept the constraints of mathematics as absolute values and therefore approaches the arts.
