Please join us to celebrate the opening of ‘Lucio Fontana: Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary’ at Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong. Featuring seminal works from 1949 onward, the exhibition focuses on Lucio Fontana’s revolutionary Buchi (Holes) and Tagli (Cuts), tracing the evolution of the Spatialism movement he founded and his radical exploration of the canvas as a site of infinite possibility.

‘Lucio Fontana: Spatialism. Pioneering the Contemporary’
17 September – 19 December
Hauser & Wirth Hong KongG/F, 8 Queen's Road Central
Tue – Sat, 11 am –7 pm

Curator Walkthrough & Book Launch
Thursday 17 September
4 – 5 pm

Opening Reception
Thursday 17 September
5 – 7 pm

About Lucio Fontana

The pioneering artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) was born in Argentina to parents of Italian descent. After studying in Italy, he returned to Argentina in the 1920s where he pursued a career as a sculptor. In 1946, he published his Manifiesto Blanco, which called for the integration of art, science, and technology, and laid the foundations for the emergence of the Spatialist movement the following year. Best known for his Concetti Spaziali and Tagli series of slashed canvases, Fontana redefined postwar art by dismantling traditional boundaries between painting and sculpture, violating the integrity of the canvas to open up the new and infinite dimension of the void.