Spatialism

Spatialism (Italian: Spazialismo) is an art movement founded by Argentine-Italian artist Lucio Fontana[1] in Milan in 1947 in which he proposed to synthesize colour, sound, space, movement, and time into a new type of art.

The main ideas of the movement were anticipated in his Manifiesto blanco (White Manifesto) published in Buenos Aires in 1946.

It repudiated the illusory or "virtual" space of traditional easel painting and sought to unite art and science to project colour and form into real space by the use of up-to-date techniques such as neon lighting and television.

In 2005, the Franco-German artist couple Cécile Colle and Ralf Nuhn[2] produced a series of canvases with computer connectors inserted into them, entitled "Cyber-Spatialism."

According to the artists, "by substituting Fontana's slashes with computer connectors, Cyber-Spatialism implies an extension of the canvas into cyberspace, and thus attempts to address the notion, that in today's (globalized) culture, real space is increasingly being replaced by virtual space.