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Lucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor, and ceramist who became a naturalized Argentine. He was born in Rosario de Santa Fé, Argentina, in 1899. The young Lucio Fontana was sent by his family to study in Milan, where he obtained a diploma as a building surveyor at the Carlo Cattaneo Technical Institute. Returning to Argentina in 1921, he began working in his father's sculpture studio. In 1924, he opened his own sculpture studio, abandoning his father's realistic style and allowing himself to be influenced by cubism. In 1927, he returned to Milan, where he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and attended courses by Adolfo Wildt.
In 1930, he participated in the XVII Venice Biennale with the sculptures Eva and Vittoria fascista and held his first solo exhibition at the Galleria del Milione in Milan displaying Uomo nero. The artwork, which would begin the cycle of human figures reduced to geometric silhouettes, represents a break with the past, particularly with the Wildt school, and the start of a personal artistic exploration.
From 1935 to 1939, he devoted himself with particular intensity to the activity of ceramics, working in the factory of his friend Giuseppe Mazzotti in Albisola.
From 1940 to 1947, he was once again in Argentina and, together with other abstract artists, wrote the Manifiesto blanco with which 'A change in essence and form is required. The overcoming of painting, sculpture, poetry, and music is demanded. A greater art is necessary in accordance with the demands of the new spirit.'
Returning to Milan in 1947, together with Beniamino Joppolo, Giorgio Kaisserlian, and Milena Milani, he founded Spatialism, an artistic movement supported by the Galleria del Cavallino in Venice.
in 1949, he deepens his space research with the start of the Buchi cycle, monochrome canvas works characterized by vortices of holes made with an awl.
Since the early Sixties, Lucio Fontana has focused with particular dedication on the series of Olii, works on canvas where the thick layer of paint is pierced by holes or lacerations.
In 1961, he held his first solo exhibition in the United States at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. In the same year, inspired by the New York metropolis, he conceived the Metals, reflective sheets on which he intervened by slashing and cutting the surface. This was followed by an unstoppable series of solo exhibitions in Milan, Venice, Tokyo, London, and Brussels.
In 1963, he perhaps began the most iconic series of his artistic production, the End of God, oval-shaped canvases, monochrome or sometimes sprinkled with glitter, crossed by holes and lacerations, exhibited for the first time at the Galleria dell'Ariete in Milan.
He will once again test his creativity in 1964 with the series of Teatrini, works in which the lacquered wooden frames are shaped and form differentiated shapes, and in 1967 with the series of Ellissi, elliptical boards of lacquered wood variously colored and pierced by machine-made holes. Lucio Fontana died in Comabbio, in the province of Varese, in 1968 at the age of 69.

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