Great Art at the Movies continues with a documentary on Lucio Fontana, May 25, 26 and 27 only

The second event of the new season of La Grande Arte al Cinema will be dedicated to Lucio Fontana. The documentary Lucio Fontana, The Final Cut, produced by Nexo Studios and Good Day Films, will arrive in Italian theaters on May 25, 26 and 27, 2026. The film is directed by Andrea Bettinetti and features actress Miriam Leone as narrator. The list of cinemas that will program the event will soon be published on nexostudios.it, while presales will open April 23.

The documentary aims to pay tribute to one of the most influential protagonists of twentieth-century art, recounting his creative path and innovative character. Indeed, Fontana was able to profoundly transform the way he conceived space and matter, central elements in his artistic research and the starting point for a new vision of contemporary art. Made in collaboration with the Lucio Fontana Foundation, the film aims to offer a broad and international look at the figure of the artist. The narrative is enriched by testimonies from contemporary artists and scholars, archival materials, many of which have never been shown before and have been recovered thanks to recent research, and footage of works preserved in major museums and collections. Ample space is also devoted to the most significant places in his life.

The film will take the viewer on a journey through Fontana’s creative universe, highlighting his visionary and multifaceted personality. In fact, his artistic production ranges from sculptures to ceramics, from spatial environments to architectural interventions, to the famous “holes” and “cuts” and the theoretical manifestos that defined his artistic thought.

The narrative journey starts from the artist’s studio in Comabbio, passes through postwar Milan and arrives in Rosario, Argentina, where Fontana was born in 1899. The narrative then continues to the School of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, where he taught in the 1940s, passes through European museums and cultural institutions that hosted his exhibitions, and recalls his first major New York exhibition at the Martha Jackson Gallery. The documentary concludes again in Comabbio, in the family home where the artist died in September 1968.

Special attention is also paid to the Argentine period of his career, showing early works and visual materials that help tell a part of his still little-known artistic story. The film thus alternates biographical elements and reflections on his creative journey, accompanied by the narration of Miriam Leone, who guides the viewer through the historical and cultural context in which Fontana lived and worked, illustrating his influences, innovations and relationships with artists and intellectuals of his time.

Through a series of interviews and contributions, the documentary also includes interventions by international artists such as Doug Wheeler, Antony Gormley, Carsten Höller, and Alfredo Jaar, whose work addresses themes that dialogue with Fontana’s research. These testimonies are complemented by those of artists who personally knew Fontana when he was young, including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Heinz Mack, Giovanni Anceschi, and Roberta Cerini Baj, as well as contributions from scholars Luca Massimo Barbero and Daniela Alejandra Sbaraglia.

Because Fontana’s work profoundly transformed the very concept of painting and sculpture, introducing a new relationship with space, light and the temporal dimension, the film also proposes interdisciplinary interpretations. Indeed, the analysis opens up to reflections linking art to the physics of the universe, architecture and the relationship between technology, creative gesture and spirituality. Contributions include those by philosopher of science Paolo Benanti, architect Norman Foster, art historian Giuliana Bruno and expert Giovanni Rossello, owner of Ceramiche Mazzotti and head of the Tullio d’Albisola Archive.

The documentary Lucio Fontana, The Final Cut is produced by Good Day Films and Nexo Studios with the exclusive permission of the Lucio Fontana Foundation. The project has Unipol as main partner, with the collaboration of Intesa Sanpaolo, Gallerie d’Italia and Sky, as well as the patronage of the City of Milan and the Argentine Consulate General in Milan. For 2026, the La Grande Arte al Cinema season will be distributed exclusively in Italy with the support of media partners Radio Capital, Sky Arte, MYmovies and in collaboration with Abbonamento Musei.

Great Art at the Movies continues with a documentary on Lucio Fontana, May 25, 26 and 27 only

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