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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) Italian painter and sculptor, is the founder of spatialist movement. Since 1949, breaking the canvas with holes and cuts, he has overcome the traditional distinction between painting and sculpture. Space ceases to be an object of representation according to the conventional rules of prospect. The surface of the canvas itself, interrupting itself in reliefs and recesses, enters into a direct relationship with the space and the light real. Her monochrome canvases, often spray painted, bear the mark of precise, confident gestures of the artist who, leaving behind his brushes, handles razor blades. Everything is played on shadows with which he underlines the solutions of continuity. Born in Argentina, the artist arrives at his poetics by meditating on the lessons of baroque, in which the figures seem to abandon the plane and continue in space. He is not only the founder of the spatialist movement but also a valid representative established at an international level. Some of his monochrome canvases should be understood as openly provocative gestures which, with holes and cuts, scandalize the public also for the apparent ease with which it seems possible to remake them. In fact, there are numerous counterfeiters, but they lack an equally certain sign. To protect himself, Fontana writes senseless sentences on the back of each canvas, a simple pretext for one calligraphic expertise. Works * The sky of Venice * Midday in Piazza San Marco * Spatial concept