Lot 505: ? Toni Fabris Expansion 1971 Aluminium 340cm.;

? Toni Fabris
Expansion
1971
Aluminium
340cm.; 134ins high by 180cm.; 71ins long by 55cm.; 21½ins wide
This lot is sold with a monograph on the piece including conceptual photographs from the Galleria d'art Cortina with an appreciation by Robert Sanesi together with a black and white photograph of the piece certified by the sculptors son Luigi Fabris.
This piece was acquird by the Walter Fontana collection in 1974.
Toni Fabris was born on the 10 May 1915 at Bassano Del Grappa. He studied at the Liceo Artistico and the Accademia di Brera in Milan under Francesco Messina. After the war, in which he was taken prisoner, he held a one-man show at the Galleria dell'Illustrazione Italiana, in Milan. In the following years he returned to his experiments in sculpture begun in 1937. In 1962 he held his second one-man show at the Galleria Minima Toninelli, followed in 1963with an exhibition at the Galeria D'Eendt in Amsterdam, who also sponsored him at the Salon International des Galeries Pilots, at the Museo Cantonale of Lausanne in 1963. In 1965, together with four other Italian artists, he was invited to show at the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur. In 1966 he was invited to show a group of his works at the 33rd Venice Biennial. In the same year, he was invited with five other Italian artists to exhibit at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia at Verona. All of the Fabris pieces in this sale were made in the 1970's and show a progression from his earlier more zoomorphic style of High voltage Tension completed in the 1960's.
Literature; Toni Fabris: sculpture from 1959-1967 by Agnoldomenica Pica, Edizioni del Milione, 1968.