Lucio Fontana, an Italian artist of Argentine origin, marked the history of art with his revolutionary work on the flat surface of the canvas, considered to be a prefiguration of conceptual art. His artistic career is marked by significant contributions to abstraction and the spatial movement.

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In 1935, the artist joined the Abstraction-Création group in Paris, where he created expressionist sculptures in ceramic and bronze. In 1946, Fontana published the Manifesto Blanco, a reference text for the spatial movement, which would have a considerable influence on many abstract artists. This current proposes an art based on the unity of time and space, setting aside conventional artistic forms.

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Fontana moved to Milan in 1947, where he commissioned churches and published other manifestos. From 1949, he began to paint monochrome surfaces that he pierced and incised directly into the canvas, considering that the canvas was not simply a support but an illusion. His spatialism is characterized by the creation of a three-dimensional pictorial construction, seeking to explore the movement of space-time and to highlight unfathomable natural forces.

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His works have joined the most prestigious collections in the world, including those of MoMA in New York, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Tate Modern in London.