Lucio Fontana 

Born in 1899 in Rosario, Argentina, with an Italian father, a sculptor by training, he spent most of his life in Milan.

Using all possibilities of polychrome sculpture (clay, ceramics, mosaic) and collaborating with architects, it is one of the first Italian abstract artists in the 1930s He spent World War II in Argentina.

Back in Milan in 1947,...

Born in 1899 in Rosario, Argentina, with an Italian father, a sculptor by training, he spent most of his life in Milan.

Using all possibilities of polychrome sculpture (clay, ceramics, mosaic) and collaborating with architects, it is one of the first Italian abstract artists in the 1930s He spent World War II in Argentina.

Back in Milan in 1947, he became the figurehead of the movement that defines spatialist in various manifestos.

This move by the space and light to design works in relation to the surrounding world and the conquest of space. It is embodied in his ceramic sculptures, paintings and its gaps environments.

In 1949 he made his first Concetti spaziali (spatial concepts), perforated canvases on which it is involved with various materials and bright colors. After a retrospective at the Venice Biennale in 1958, he began his series of split canvas, "Tagli" and becomes a benchmark for the artists of the 1960s.