ABOUT THE PRINT - Print belonging to the collection ‘Six contes de La Fontaine’. - Original graphic work numbered and signed by hand by the artist. ABOUT THE ARTIST Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) was an Italian-Argentine artist best known as the founder of Spatialism and a pioneer of postwar avant-garde art. Born in Rosario, Argentina, and trained in Milan, he initially worked as a sculptor before radically transforming the language of painting. In 1947, he published the First Spatialist Manifesto, advocating for an art that would transcend the traditional boundaries of canvas and incorporate space, light, and movement. Fontana achieved international recognition with his groundbreaking series Concetto Spaziale, in which he pierced and later slashed the canvas—acts known as buchi (holes) and tagli (cuts). These gestures were not destructive but constructive, opening the surface to real space and redefining the relationship between artwork and viewer. His monochrome canvases, often in white, red, or gold, emphasized materiality and spatial depth. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Fontana exhibited widely in Europe and the Americas, participating multiple times in the Venice Biennale. His innovations profoundly influenced Minimalism and Conceptual Art, securing his legacy as one of the most revolutionary artists of the twentieth century.