Spazialismo

The Italian art movement of Spazialismo was initiated in Milan in 1947 by the Argentine-born artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), who demanded in his "Manifesto Blanco" that art should embrace science and technology and that a work of art should turn to space (Italian spazio = "space"). The new spatial art in the spirit of the postwar period was to synthesize architecture, painting and sculpture, as well as sound, space, movement and time into a new kind of art. By using things like neon lights, radio and television, further dimensions can be opened up and the surface of the canvas or the volume of the statue can be overcome.