The Accorsi-Ometto Museum continues its research on Italian art of the 20th century, investigating the role of Spatialism in the artistic renewal of the immediate post-World War II period.

The transformation of Italian art that began in the second half of the forties is unimaginable without the conceptual approach to the problem of space, identified by the protagonists of the Spatialist Movement through signs, lines, holes, and cuts in the canvases. Spatialism, or the "spatial concept of art," involves intellectuals, writers, poets, and authors who recognize Lucio Fontana as a provocative and revolutionary leader.

The exhibition, curated by Nicoletta Colombo, Serena Redaelli, Giuliana Godio, and with the scientific advice of Luca Massimo Barbero, brings together twenty-four masters with over fifty works from museums, institutional collections, and private collections.

It starts with the section dedicated to Lucio Fontana, the creator of holes, where emptiness becomes a constructive element of a new cosmos, and the experimenter of cuts, made to physically introduce three-dimensionality into painting. It then continues with the painting of Roberto Crippa, an artist in dialogue with international trends of gesture and sign, interpreted in swirling and dynamic formulas, with excursions into surrealism and totemic primitivism.

Milanese Spatialism, a creative forge of the movement's research, is represented by authors interested in surrealist and existential implications such as Gianni Dova, Cesare Peverelli, Emilio Scanavino, Ettore Sottsass, Beniamino Joppolo, Aldo Bergolli, Gian Carozzi.

Protagonists of the disruptive novelties of abstract painting in the fifties, with a distinctly Venetian attention to light and color, are instead the Venetian Spatialists Virgilio Guidi, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Mario Deluigi, Edmondo Bacci, Vinicio Vianello, Gino Morandis, Bruna Gasparini, Ennio Finzi, Saverio Rampin, and Bruno De Toffoli.

The inclusive nature of the movement and the broad strategic vision of the gallerist Carlo Cardazzo give rise to the temporary "Spatialist" presences of Roberto Sebastián Matta Echaurren, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Donati, Iaroslav Serpan, and Remo Bianco, witnesses of the recurring surrealist, sign-based, and nuclear contaminations in the interdisciplinary climate of the fifties.

The exhibition is enriched with catalogs, magazines, and volumes from the exhibitions of the fifties and sixties and features a video on the engaging Spatial Environments by Fontana, brilliant environmental experiments focused on the new perception of space. The video is accompanied by a musical composition created by the sound designer and electronic music producer Rico Casazza.