Lucio Fontana is remembered for work the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Lucio Fontana as Italian-Argentine sculptor, painter and theorist, Manifiesto blanco, Spatialism (1899-1968).
Lucio Fontana was born at Rosario in 1899. His recorded nationality is Italy. He trained at Brera Academy.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the movements arrived in quick succession, each defining itself against the last.
He worked as painter, sculptor and designer.
His recorded movement is movimento spaziale and movimento arte concreta.
A painting outlives the argument about it, which is the only durable form of an artistic reputation.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Lucio Fontana died in 1968, aged 69. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Movement: Movimento Spaziale and Movimento Arte Concreta
