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In the case of Lucio Fontana, born in Argentina to Italian parents, the artist spent much of the 1940s perfecting his manifesto and working towards his inimitable style exploring the two-dimensional plane in a sculptural manner. An initial absence of colour, but reliance on shade, texture and tone eventually gave way to the exploration of bold colours with either buchi [holes], tagli [slashes], or both. His graphic work primarily executed in the 1960s onwards were perceived deliberately to be understand in then contemporary ‘space age’.

For Marino Marini, it was a desire to interpret the …