“Servant of Two Masters. Lucio Fontana’s 1948 Sculptures in Milan’s Cinema Arlecchino”. Oxford Art Journal vol. 35:3 (December 2012): 337-361
This essay critically assesses two hitherto unstudied sculptural decorations by Lucio Fontana in Milan: a ceramic frieze depicting a bellic scene covered in fluorescent paint and mosaic depicting a harlequin, both created for a Milanese cinema during Italy’s postwar reconstruction. Hecker contends that Fontana’s decorations must be viewed as key dress-rehearsals for his celebrated conceptual slashes of the following decades.