Lucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist was born in 19 February 1899 and died on 7 September 1968 Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He was the son of the sculptor Luigi Fontana. He was the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.
He was working as a sculptor until 1922 along with his father, and then on his own. The first exhibition he participated was of Nexus Already in 1926, a group of young Argentine artists working in Rosario de Santa Fé.
In 1930 under the sculptor Adolfo Wildt he presented his first exhibition organized by the Milano art gallery Il Milione. He then traveled to Italy and France, working with abstract and expressionist painters during the following decade. Together with some of his students they found the Altamira academy in Buenos Aires (1946) and made public the White Manifesto.
He was working as a sculptor until 1922 along with his father, and then on his own. The first exhibition he participated was of Nexus Already in 1926, a group of young Argentine artists working in Rosario de Santa Fé.
In 1930 under the sculptor Adolfo Wildt he presented his first exhibition organized by the Milano art gallery Il Milione. He then traveled to Italy and France, working with abstract and expressionist painters during the following decade. Together with some of his students they found the Altamira academy in Buenos Aires (1946) and made public the White Manifesto.
Fontana dedicated to his wife a rare, large crimson work with a single slash, which known as the Teresita, costing about £6.7 million at Christie's London in 2008. then an auction record for the artist. In 2015, Fontana’s Concetto Spaziale, Attese (1965), from the collection of Anna-Stina Malmborg Hoglund and Gunnar Hoglund set a new record for a slash painting at £8.4 million at Sotheby's London
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