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Repetto Gallery is delighted to announce the inauguration of its new headquarters in Lugano, with this KENOSIS exhibition dedicated to two of the greatest Italian artists of the twentieth century: Lucio Fontana and Fausto Melotti.

Kenosis: emptying; kenós (emptiness): as renunciation, reduction and transparency, these are key terms by which to indicate the very heart of their poetics. Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina, 1899 – Comabbio, Varese, 1968) and Fausto Melotti (Rovereto, 1901 – Milan, 1986). The exhibition presents a confrontation, a dialogue between two great artists who were also …