Word: fontana
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...interned at a prison camp in Hereford, Texas. Depressed and dispirited, Burri abandoned medicine for art. Short of materials, he turned to the abundant supply of burlap in the camp and used it as a canvas. After the war, Burri returned to Italy, where he and contemporaries Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni forged their own unique style to grab attention from the American and French modernists then in vogue. It was the burlap paintings that first drew the attention of American art critics to Burri in the early '50s; a young Robert Rauschenberg came to Rome to watch him work...
...flawed but rewarding show about a flawed but noble process, The Jury comes from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana, of Homicide and Oz. Those dramas focused on the human, fallible side of the criminal-justice system; they were good preparation for this most idiosyncratic aspect of the trial process. Even for these producers, this could not have been an easy pitch. ("You've got 12 people in a room talking, and--guys? Hello?") To liven things up, The Jury cuts antically to the trial, lawyer negotiations and meetings in chambers. In this sense, it resembles Law & Order, which must have...
...Jury," which beats "Law & Order: Trial by Jury" to the voir dire by going inside the deliberations on a different highly charge case every week. From Tom Fontana and Barry Levinson, whose cop shows ("Homicide," "The Beat") tend to be more cerebral - and less popular - than the "L&O" franchise...
...involving a failing insurer, Executive Life, and then conspired to hide the true details. Pinault vigorously denies the charges. Second, there's a federal grand jury that's considering whether to indict him for the same fraud. "He has got very significant legal problems here in America," says Gary Fontana, the lead attorney representing the Department of Insurance. Because Crédit Lyonnais at the time was state-owned, the French government has agreed to indemnify it - but not necessarily Pinault. So if he loses, Pinault faces a tough choice: persuade the French government to pick up his bill...
...Haesaerts filmed from the other side. Around the same time, Hans Namuth was photographing Jackson Pollock from all angles as the American artist dripped, splashed and poured paint onto canvas. Fifteen years later, Milan photographer Ugo Mulas had something similar in mind when he asked his friend Lucio Fontana, famous for slashing through large monochrome canvases, for a chance to record his unusual technique for posterity. The resulting six-photo series is presented alongside a new exhibition of the artist's work at Verona's Palazzo Forti. We see the elegantly-dressed Fontana approaching a solid white canvas, a Stanley...