Conte Casa, the sartorial design apartment of the Conte brand, is welcoming an extraordinary union between art and design. Beginning with the Salone del Mobile and running through 2025, the space, in collaboration with De Jonckheere Gallery in Geneva, will become an art gallery featuring the works of immortal artist Lucio Fontana, one of the most revolutionary and influential figures in 20th-century art. This project celebrates not only Fontana’s artistic genius, but also highlights the harmony between the expressive forms of art and those of design, a union capable of stimulating the senses, awe and imagination of visitors.
In addition to Fontana’s works, Casa Conte, which is located within the elegant neoclassical seNing of Cusano’s Palazzo Melzi, will host a number of antiquities and tribal art works curated by Laura De Jonckheere, of the eponymous gallery, in collaboration with BRUN Fine Art for antiquities and Lucas Raton Gallery for tribal art.
The evocative association of Fontana’s famous “cuts” and “spatial concepts” with works from different eras creates a unique visual relationship with the architecture of the interiors and adds magic and emotional depth to already striking environments in which past and present merge, telling a tale of a dimension suspended in time. The collaboration with galleries De Jonckheere, BRUN Fine Art and Lucas RaNon once again underscores how art and design can enrich each other, and invites visitors to consider the works as an integral part of the environment. An initiative with great aesthetic value, celebrating and reinforcing the deep connection between art and contemporary design.
