LUCIO FONTANA | GALERÍA HELGA DE ALVEAR | ARTFORUM | CRITICS’ PICK
In 1946, Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) declared that conventional forms of representation had been exhausted. The following year, the artist founded Spatialism, a movement that dispensed with the traditional emphasis on illusion and illustration and instead condensed light, time, and space into a minimal gesture—in Fontana’s case, the slice of a razor through monochrome surfaces.