At what precise moment was Lucio Fontana’s new and revolutionary “spatial concept” born? How, and by what means, did it form and develop? These two questions inform the exhibition organised by the Museo d’arte Mendrisio (with a linked exhibition at the Liner Museum in Appenzell). What is signficant is that the term spatial concept appears for the first time in the margins of a drawing (no longer extant) of 1946. From 1946 to 1951 at least, drawing plays an important part in the evolution of Fontana’s “new dimension”.

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