Lucio Fontana
artist
Painter and sculptor, founder of Spatialism
The collaboration
Fontana and Egidio meet in Milan in 1964. For Egidio, Fontana is the spur to seek new geometric forms; for Fontana, Egidio is the way to translate into glass his concepts, which he had tried alone without success.
Together they compose the Spatial Concepts, their image of the universe and of the infinite: wooden panels covered with copper or aluminium, pierced in several places, on which rest spherical elements of different form, size and colour. One of them, given to Peggy Guggenheim, is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.