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Lucio was an Argentine-Italian sculptor, painter and theorist, who developed Spatialism and as the first known artist to slash his canvases – which symbolizes an utter rejection of all prerequisites of art.
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“Matter, colour and sound in motion are the phenomena whose simultaneous development makes up the new art”
Fontana often lined the reverse of his canvases with black gauze so that the darkness would shimmer behind the open cuts and create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth.
From 1949 on he started the so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of monochrome paintings, drawing a sign of what he named “an art for the Space Age”. He devised the generic title Concetto spaziale (‘spatial concept’) for these works and used it for almost all his later paintings. These can be divided into broad categories: the Buchi (‘Holes), beginning in 1949, and the Tagli (‘slashes’), which he instituted in the mid-1950s.
