Luciano Fabro, a prominent figure of the Arte Povera movement, actively contributed to redefining the boundaries of the canvas. He conceived the canvas as a concrete space. Initially trained as a painter, Fabro encountered the spatialist movement of Lucio Fontana at the 1958 Venice Biennale. His work, centered around the notions of time and space, led him to abandon painting in favor of creating physical objects that integrate into a real and tangible space.
In 1963, Fabro wrote a manifesto (La mia certezza : il mio senso per la mia azione (pseudo-Bacone)) in which he expounded on his interest in the question of perception and the existence of an outer reality intrinsically linked to an inner reality. He also defended the idea that works of art serve as tools for understanding the world.
www.ftn-books.com has some nice Fabro titles available.
