Concetto spaziale

Details

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale
signed, titled and dated 'l Fontana "Concetto spaziale" '52' (on the reverse) and with the artist's thumbprint (on the reverse and on the stretcher)
oil, glitter and waterpaint on paper laid down on canvas
31½ x 31½in. (80 x 80cm.)

Provenance

Galleria del Naviglio, Milan (1289).
Acquired by the father of the present owner circa 1960.

Literature

M. Tapié, Devenir de Fontana, Turin 1961 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 52 B 10 (illustrated p. 28).
E. Crispoli, Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 52 B 10 (illustrated p. 110).

Exhibited

Milan, Galleria del Naviglio, Lucio Fontana, May-June 1952.

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Lot Essay

'Art is one of the manifestations of man's intelligence, no one can define its signs - its limits, motives, needs. Holes: not a revolution simply intelligence making art.
'Spatial artists permit the individual to use his imagination, they free the individual to use his imagination, they free the individual from pictorial and propagandistic rhetoric.
'Art is not one of man's material needs, which are and remain in a primordial state. The arts have not developed man's matter and humanity, these are and remain in a primordial state, however the arts are a manifestation of man's intelligence and therefore follow the evolution of their time. Man created figurative art, he adopted materials, techniques, colour, ink, bronze, to develop a form of art; in the nuclear space age, we artists of our time abandon the known art forms and develop an art form based on the technology of our era, neon, television, radar etc. The work of art cannot be eternal, the creative fantasy of man exists in time, when man ends infinity continues' (L. Fontana, 1952, quoted in E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Milan 1998, p.177).

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