Concetto spaziale, Attese

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and numbered 'l. fontana, 'concetto spaziale', ATTESE/1+1-976T' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
28¾ x 39¾in. (73 x 100.6cm.)
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Fernand C. Graindorge, Brussels.
André Bernheim, Paris.
Private Collection, Turin.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 60 T 132 (illustrated, p. 335).
Diario 16, Madrid, 31 October 1987 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana Catalogo ragionato di sculture, dipinti, ambientazioni, vol. I, Milan 2006, no. 60 T 132 (illustrated, p. 504).

Exhibited

Tokyo, Fuji Television Gallery, Fontana, March 1986, no. 6.
Madrid, Galéria Theo, Fontana. Obras 1960-1968, October-December 2002, no. 10 (illustrated in colour).
Zurich, de Pury & Luxembourg, Lucio Fontana, October-December 2002, no. 10 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"The cuts that I made so far represent above all a philosophical space. But that which I am seeking, now, is no longer philosophical space but rather physical space. Two or three years have been enough, in fact, and space is no longer an abstraction, but has become a dimension which man can even inhabit, violating it with jets, with Sputniks, with space ships. It is a human dimension that can generate physiological pain, a terror in the mind, and I, in my most recent canvases, am trying to give form to this sensation" (Fontana quoted in G. Livi, "Incontro con Lucio Fontana", in Vanità, VI, no. 13, Fall 1962).

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