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Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Lucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. Born in (19 February 1899–7 September 1968) Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera. He was the son of the sculptor Luigi Fontana. Until 1922, he was working as a sculptor along withq his father, and then on his own. Hes participated in the first exhibition of Nexus Already in 1926, a group of young Argentine artists working in Rosario de Santa Fé.

Fontana is best known for his slash paintings since he was trained in classical sculpture. In this painting, he took a sharp knife to a paint canvas, with the violation of the painting’s supremacy to surface and suggest a spatial element beyond the two-dimensional confines of the medium. But as he explored the space behind the canvas in 1949, Fontana also began to create his installations, the first of which, “Spatial Environment in Black Light”. It consists of a darkened room in which sculptural papier-mâché forms that are illuminated by black light and covered with fluorescent paint.

Fontana’s paintings and environments have been exhibited in many galleries. There was an exhibition which was skillfully designed by the architect Annabelle Selldorf, intersperses, including the lyrical “Spatial Light,” a reproduction of a 1951 neon sculpture that hung above the monumental staircase of the Triennale di Milano.

It looks like an prodigious light drawing and must have seemed astonishing for its time. There are few other paintings known as Buchi (Italian for holes), in which the artist induce the spatial by poking holes in his canvases, some of which are also stuffed with jagged pieces of colored glass whose richness is at odds with the violent quality of the perforations. The element of difference is even more pronounced in “La Fine di Dio” (”The End of God”), a series of large, egg-shaped canvases whose shiny surfaces, covered with oil paint in Easter-egg colors, are similarly punctured.

Fontana made in 1968 for the art exhibition Documenta 4 and this is the place where these currents come together is in the installation that. An illuminated scrim ceiling leads to a space with a single and tiny, cramped labyrinth , slashed white panel. There’s something almost appalling about the slash, which is both violent and liberating, a relief from the labyrinth’s claustrophobic confines.

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