An unusual and original comparison between two great artists. This publication is conceived as a dialogue between the complexity of the sign in the work of the founder of the spatialist movement, Lucio Fontana, and the relationship between space and body in the work of one of the most acclaimed sculptors of our century, Antony Gormley. It explores a selection, punctual and dense, of works, sculptural and on paper, of these two artists highlighting the relationship between the sign and the expression of matter - a matter that becomes one with space. Both in their two-dimensional and three-dimensional dimension, the work of the artists "inhabits" space, and the attention shifts from the object in space to the space itself. Every single work carries with it the trace of the reality of the moment when the gesture, be it sculptural or graphic, releases the energy tension contained in its own execution. The sign thus also becomes a recording of time. Documented in this small, precious publication, edited by Luca Massimo Barbero and on a graphic layout by Leonardo Sonnoli, a selection of drawings made by Fontana between 1947and 1968 and a series of drawings and works on paper that cover all aspects of Antony Gormley’s research, along with some sculptures by both authors. The volume ends with a precious, unpublished conversation between the curator of the catalogue and Antony Gormley.