An Introduction to Lucio Fontana | Christie's

Christie's specialist Stefano Amoretti examines the work of Lucio Fontana, the multifaceted founder of Spatialism who created the endless void.

Born to Italian parents in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina, in 1899, Lucio Fontana began his artistic career as a sculptor, working under his father Luigi before setting out on his own. Throughout his early years, Fontana split his time between Argentina and Italy, studying at the Accademia di Brera under Adolfo Wildt and exhibiting his works at the Milanese gallery, Il Milione.

In 1940, he returned to Argentina, in part to escape war-ravaged Europe. It was there, in 1946, that Fontana founded the Altamira academy, and, with several of his students, penned the White Manifesto, wherein they stated, ‘Matter, colour, and sound in motion are the phenomena whose simultaneous development makes up the new art,’ laying the foundations for what would become Spazialismo, the Spatialist movement.

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[petrfrizen]

Art unlimited and unrestrained. The Perforations are coming! Thinking Italian! Living Italian!!!

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C'est très interennces cette video j'aime bien

[qiyou]

Can someone tell me what was said at 2:20 I didn't quite understand. Thank you very much！！！

[guillem]

Not Italian, born in Rosario, Argentina.

[joshua.snyder]

This is ridiculously overrated. Pen on tin foil with beads, which looks like a low effort elementary school craft?

[luciasantossotello]

Gostaria que fosse traduzido para o português

[pedrojaldopozuelo]

Te toman el pelo de forma artística y hampartista y el pibe se lleva 9 kilos,
El que pago eso le sobra la pasta

[Inkeyso]

a true scam hahahahaha this is. not art, its rt because someone told it was

[milfordmkt]

Another of modern art's one trick ponies. An artistic dead-end, the artist repeating himself ad nauseum. Imagine a novel with a hole in it, penetrating the book where the word "hole" appears, thereby making the entire work illegible as a "novel". Where anti-art simply becomes joke art. So essentially these "canvases" are sculptures, right? Other minimalists have created more compelling sculptural canvas work, like Stella or Ellsworth Kelly. I'd like to slash and poke holes in his work, but he's done it for me already. Reminds me of a Monty Python satire.