"Colour, an element of space; sound, an element of time; and movement oscillates between the two."
A major representative of Spatialism, Lucio Fontana is an Italian painter and sculptor of Argentine origin, a great visionary of the 20th century. Fontana’s work has left its mark on several generations of artists, from Yves Klein to the present day. His fascination with space led him to develop his now-famous "spatialist" theory around his reflections on art, time, space, and futurism. At the end of the 1940s, Fontana began to develop this “spatial” research in the field of painting, piercing holes in his canvases. His works would then transcend the traditional genres of painting and sculpture: the emphasis is on the idea, movement, and gesture, no longer on the medium.