Original invitation with by Lucio Fontana for exhibition at Galeire Alexandre Jolas in Paris 1968.

Lucio Fontana was an Italian-Argentine artist best known as the founder of the Spatialism (Spazialismo), a movement that sought to merge art with space, light, and technology. He’s one of the most influential figures in 20th-century avant-garde art.

His famous “Concetto Spaziale” (Spatial Concept) works — canvases cut or punctured with precise gestures — symbolically opened the surface of the painting to infinite space. These slashes and holes were not acts of destruction but of creation, turning the canvas into a bridge between the material and the immaterial.

Fontana’s work is part of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection, representing the museum’s focus on post-1945 modern art. In 1967, Louisiana also dedicated an exhibition to Fontana, accompanied by a poster titled “Fontana – Louisiana”.

The piece is framed with a real hand gilded frame and is placed on a bright pink background.

H38 x W32 cm.