Une nouvelle conception de l’art environnemental. Vingt ans d’Environnements spatiaux et autres installations (1949-1968) = A New Concept of Environment Art Twenty Years of Ambienti spaziali and other Installations (1949–1968)

The concept of the ambiente (environment) as an original and independent form of artistic expression – different from and unrelated to the volumes of sculpture and the spatiality of architecture – and as a summation of the drive to overcome the limits of materials and typologies of the traditional arts that inspired the avant-gardes of the twentieth century. It was, perhaps, the greatest achievement – anticipatory and, seen a posteriori, decisive – of all of Lucio Fontana’s work.