![Lucio Fontana - Concetto Spaziale [1964-65] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3694/10851179725_a5cee8ff9d.jpg)
Lucio Fontana (Santa Fe, Argentina, February 19, 1899 - Varese, Italy, September 7, 1968) was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera. Following his return to Italy in 1948 Fontana exhibited his first Ambiente spaziale a luce nera (Spatial Environment) in 1949 at the Galleria del Naviglio in Milan, a temporary installation consisting of a giant amoeba-like shape suspended in the void in a darkened room and lit by neon light. From 1949 on he started the so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of monochrome paintings, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age.’ He devised the generic title Concetto spaziale (spatial concept) for these works and used it for almost all his later paintings.
[Bukowski’s Autumn Sale, Stockholm - Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm]