The Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth was born in (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. Founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera where he mae a series of works called Spatial Concept, Waiting. These works have been done on a canvas that has been cut either once or multiply, are collectively known as the Tagli ('cuts').
He was working as a sculptor along with his father until 1922, then on his own. He participated in the first exhibition of Nexus Already where a group of young Argentine artists work in Rosario de Santa Fé in 1962.
In 1930 under the sculptor Adolfo Wildt, he presented his first exhibition in organized by the Milano art gallery Il Milione. he then journeyed to Italy and France during the following decade working with abstract and expressionist painters. He joined the association Abstraction-Création in Paris in 1935. In 1939, he joined the Corrente, a Milan group of expressionist artists.
He was working as a sculptor along with his father until 1922, then on his own. He participated in the first exhibition of Nexus Already where a group of young Argentine artists work in Rosario de Santa Fé in 1962.
In 1930 under the sculptor Adolfo Wildt, he presented his first exhibition in organized by the Milano art gallery Il Milione. he then journeyed to Italy and France during the following decade working with abstract and expressionist painters. He joined the association Abstraction-Création in Paris in 1935. In 1939, he joined the Corrente, a Milan group of expressionist artists.
The Altamira academy was founded by him together with some of his students n Buenos Aires (1946). and made public the White Manifesto. the Allied bombings of Milan destroyed his studio and works completely but soon also resumed his ceramics works in Albisola. He then collaborated with noted Milanese architects in Milan to decorate several new buildings that were part of the effort to reconstruct the city after the war.
He exhibited his first Ambiente spaziale a luce nera (Spatial Environment) at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan. It was during the late 1940s that Lucio Fontana first began puncturing the surface of paper or canvas in the blurring which made a distinction between two and three dimensional. Through the 1950s and 1960s, he recognize the importance of this innovation, he continued, and seek different ways of developing the hole as his signature gesture.
It was during the late summer and early autumn of 1958 that the first Tagli were made. They comprised small, often diagonal notch, composed in groups over unprimed canvases. By 1959 these tentative slits developed into single, more decisive slashes, as in the present work.
Around 1960 his highly personal style was characterized up to that point, he covered canvases with layers of thick oil paint applied by hand and brush and using a scalpel or Stanley knife to create great fissures in their surface.
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