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Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was a painter and sculptor born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, the son of an Italian father and an Argentine mother. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism.1

movimento spaziale is a artist theory that: "combines elements of concrete art, dada and tachism, the movement's adherents rejected easel painting and embraced new technological developments, seeking to incorporate time and movement in their works. FONTANA's slashed and pierced paintings exemplify his theses.2

From 1958 on he started the so-called slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the painting surface, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age". In 1959 he exhibited cut-off paintings with multiple combinable elements (he named the sets quanta). He participated in the Bienal de São Paulo and in numerous exhibitions in Europe (including London and Paris) and Asia, as well as New York.3

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fontana 2. http://www.artprofessor.com/art-movements/spatialism.php 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucio_Fontana