LUCIO FONTANA

Trained as a sculptor, Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) traveled with total freedom all creative fields in volume, in turn figurative and abstract. Inventor of spatialist movement claimed exceedance of technical and traditional kind of art, it is the reference for Italian artists from the 1950s and a model for avant-gardedes 1960s with split canvas. Organized around the masterpieces of the artist, for the most rarely seen in France, the catalog of the retrospective at the Museum of Art modernede the City of Paris also offers unexpected sections, such as sculpture, ceramics and collaborations between the artist and architects.