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Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of [[Spatialism]] and his ties to [[Arte Povera]].
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'''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.  
  
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* Lucio Fontana, ''Manifiesto Blanco'', 1946.
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* Lucio Fontana, ''Manifiesto Blanco'', Buenos Aires: Altamira School of Arts, 1946; repr., Milan: Galleria Apollinaire, 1966. [http://www.cvaa.com.ar/04ingles/02dossiers_en/concretos_en/05_docs_13.php English trans.]. [https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/fontanas-white-manifesto]
* Fontana, Lucio, Noci G. Le, and Ugo Mulas, ''Manifiesto Blanco'', Milan: Galleria Apollinaire, 1966. [http://beinecke.library.yale.edu/about/blogs/room-26-cabinet-curiosities/2013/01/24/fontana%E2%80%99s-white-manifesto]
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/luciofo00solo/ Lucio Fontana, 1899-1968: A Retrospective]'', New York: Guggenheim Museum, 1977.
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* ''[[Media:Lucio Fontana Autoritratto Opere 1931-1967 2022.pdf|Lucio Fontana. Autoritratto. Opere 1931-1967]]'', eds. Walter Guadagnini, Gaspare Luigi Marcone, and Stefano Roffi, Silvana, 2022, 150 pp.
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* [https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22Fontana%2C+Lucio%2C+1899-1968%22 more]
  
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fontana Fontana at Wikipedia]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fontana Wikipedia]

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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.

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