Lucio FONTANA

While studying art in Milan, Italy Lucio Fontana first exhibited his works in 1930. In 1934, he joined the group Abstraction-Creation, a collective formed in response to the surrealist movement. During World War II, Fontana went into exile in Argentina and published the"Manifesto Blanco", a manifest emphasizing the importance of art in his time. Back in Italy, other manifests followed to complete the proposal of the rules of the "spatialist movement" that he officially founded in 1950. Spatialist painters strive to create three-dimensional pictorial constructions. Initially, the idea to put a shape on the canvas remains and he makes drawings with small perforations. Later, it will be the gesture and spontaneity that prevails on the drawing. The perforations are replaced by long incisions made with scissors on monochromatic paintings and bronze spheres. By puncturing or tearing the fabric Fontana, reveals the three-dimensional space.

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