Spacialism ( Italian: Movimento spaziale , from Italian. Spazio - space) - a direction in art, considering painting and sculpture as one form of art, combining color, sound, space, movement and time. Spacialism combines the elements of concretism , Dada, and Tashism . The founder of spacialism is the Italian artist and sculptor Lucio Fontana , who upheld the principles of synthesis of art based on modern scientific and technological achievements in his White Manifesto ( Spanish Manifiesto blanco , 1946 ) and laid the theoretical foundation for the new trend in the Technical manifesto of spacialism ( Italian Manifesto tecnico dello Spazialismo ).
The most famous works in the style of Spacialism are a series of Fontana's paintings “Spatial Concepts”, which used the technique of applying cuts, tears, holes and scratches to the canvas, which, according to the author, provided access to the surrounding space and captured the energy of the artist’s movement.
Representatives of this trend are a number of Italian artists of the 1950s , the Japanese Ai-O, the German H.P. Reter and others. Works related to spaism are exhibited at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome , the National Museum of Modern Art in Paris , the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and other galleries.