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Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale
February 1949: immersive art was born in Milan.
Lucio Fontana turned off the lights at the Galleria del Naviglio, covered the walls in black, and turned on the Wood’s lamps. In the darkness, papier-mâché forms painted with phosphorescent colors floated: neither painting nor sculpture, but a luminous form in space.
It was the Spatial Environment in Black Light, the first environment in art history. No frame, no pedestal: space itself became the artwork, and the viewer stepped inside it. The exhibition, at Carlo Cardazzo’s gallery, lasted just six days—yet it forever changed the way we think about art.
This vintage photograph documents that very work, according to the handwritten note on the back: “a unique form in space under Wood’s black light.”
€ 300,00 / 400,00
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