Lucio Fontana

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His artistic training began in Argentina with his father sculptures. Moving to Milan, he attended the Brera Academy, a pupil of Wildt. In the 1930s he was in contact with the group of Lombard artists and with the international movement Abrstraction-Création. Returning to Argentina during the war, in 1946 he elaborated the "Manifesto blanco", a declaration of intent that materialized in the works created on his return to Italy, the Spatial Environments and Concepts, where the problem of space is faced through drilling or cutting. of the support used from time to time.