Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was an Italian sculptor, painter and ceramist considered the father of Spatialism, a mid-twentieth century modern movement that linked artistic experimentation with scientific principles and theories.
In the mid-1930s, after starting out in Milan, Fontana moved to Paris, where...
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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was an Italian sculptor, painter and ceramist considered the father of Spatialism, a mid-twentieth century modern movement that linked artistic experimentation with scientific principles and theories.
In the mid-1930s, after starting out in Milan, Fontana moved to Paris, where he joined the Abstraction-Creation group and created expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze. He later moved to Argentina, where he developed his famous Technical Manifesto of Spatialism, a marvel of modernism, typical of post-war innovation, which achieved a synthesis between art, technology and science, looking to the future. Within the Spatialist movement, Fontana sought to project color and form into space; the best-known examples of this experimentation are his torn or lacerated, minimalist canvases, such as his vast Spatial Concept series, Waiting.
This documented presentation of the artist follows Fontana on his personal and artistic journey to explore the evolution of his pioneering ideas and their crucial influence on conceptual and performance art.
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