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Lucio Fontana: "light and color" not only cuts




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Lucio Fontana, in 1905 he moved from his native Argentina in Milan, where he attended the Brera Academy alongside the sculptor Adolfo Wildt .
learns from this experience the importance of conceptual and not imitative work of art, the principle of a symbolic-abstract space and strength of materials.
Between 1940 and 1946 the artist is in Argentina. And it is precisely within this cultural context that produces the Manifesto Blanco , preface to the first poster of spatiality, which he signed in 1947.
The term "space" refers to the new possibilities given to artists by science and new technologies.
These new tools allow you to conceive space and time dimensions beyond the conceptions of "traditional" offered by Renaissance perspective or from the decomposition cube-futurist.
the IX Triennale in Milan in 1951 (the year when drawing up the manifesto of the art space) produces the famous neon "light" space, a sculpture Abstract suspended from the ceiling and made up of neon tubes that reproduce <>, as pointed out by the artist himself. Since 1958, developed the series of Space Concepts (expectations), monochrome canvases characterized by cuts that give his research a contemplative direction. 900

Museum, Piazza del Duomo, Milan (Room 3) large windows with breathtaking views of the Duomo.