Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina – 7 September 1968, Comabbio, Varese, Italy) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is known as the founder of Spatialism and exponent of abstract painting as the first known artist to slash his canvases.

Publications

• Lucio Fontana, Manifiesto Blanco, Buenos Aires: Altamira School of Arts, 1946; repr., Milan: Galleria Apollinaire, 1966. English trans.. [1]
• Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968: A Retrospective, New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1977.
• Lucio Fontana. Autoritratto. Opere 1931-1967, eds. Walter Guadagnini, Gaspare Luigi Marcone, and Stefano Roffi, Silvana, 2022, 150 pp.
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Links

• Wikipedia