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Robilant+Voena returns to TEFAF New York with a presentation that celebrates the ceramics of Lucio Fontana, juxtaposed with two outstanding paintings by American giants of the 20th century, Alexander Calder and Sam Francis. Lucio Fontana (1899–1968), the artist who took abstract painting into the third dimension by puncturing and slashing his canvases, perhaps unsurprisingly considered himself above all a sculptor. Throughout his career, in works which radically defied traditional categories of painting and sculpture, he relentlessly explored the subject of space by defining and redefining …