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FONTANE by French artist Antoine Espinasseau, on view at GARAGE FONTANA from March 29 to June 7, 2026, is an installation composed of 13 container-fountains, based on his work ‘Pilars’. The project celebrates Italian fountains and introduces a new series of imaginary sculptures in bronze inspired by the Sicilian landscape.
The exhibition unfolds as a catalogue of possible ways of perceiving and using both the ‘Pilars’ and fountains.
The ‘Pilars’ are works that embody a legacy of material (plastic) and of form (the classic shape of a column base). They question how this legacy can be seen and lived with.
This legacy can be regarded as precious and sacred, holding flowers, coins, or statues, or as banal and everyday, serving as a support for common objects such as a rag, beers, or a dog bowl. As containers, the ‘Pilars’ accommodate these different possibilities, and their use directly reflects the value we assign to them.
Italian fountains share this same ambivalence: they can be…
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FONTANE by French artist Antoine Espinasseau, on view at GARAGE FONTANA from March 29 to June 7, 2026, is an installation composed of 13 container-fountains, based on his work ‘Pilars’. The project celebrates Italian fountains and introduces a new series of imaginary sculptures in bronze inspired by the Sicilian landscape.
The exhibition unfolds as a catalogue of possible ways of perceiving and using both the ‘Pilars’ and fountains.
The ‘Pilars’ are works that embody a legacy of material (plastic) and of form (the classic shape of a column base). They question how this legacy can be seen and lived with.
This legacy can be regarded as precious and sacred, holding flowers, coins, or statues, or as banal and everyday, serving as a support for common objects such as a rag, beers, or a dog bowl. As containers, the ‘Pilars’ accommodate these different possibilities, and their use directly reflects the value we assign to them.
Italian fountains share this same ambivalence: they can be…
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