The Walker

I chose to write about the piece by Nelson Leirner titled "Homenagem a Fontana II". This piece is very interesting to me. It is so simple that it almost doesn't make any sense. It is just different layers of different colored fabric all with horizontal zippers. Doing some research I learned that Nelson Leirner has always been interested in challenging the way people see art and the way people give commercial value to arranged objects. Leirner was inspired heavily by Lucio Fontana, an Italian artist who was famous for his cut canvases. He would take large canvases, and do nothing but put large gashes in them and show it as art. After knowing this history, it makes it a little easier to understand Leirner's piece "Homenagem a Fontana II" (which translates to "Homage to Fontana II".