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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)

Concetto spaziale

Details
Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale
signed 'l. fontana' (lower right); signed and titled 'l. fontana "Concetto Spaziale" (on the reverse)
waterpaint and pencil on canvas
46¼ x 42¼in. (117.5 x 107.3cm.)
Painted in 1960
Provenance
Galleria Moretto, Brescia.
Literature
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 60 B 6 (illustrated p. 68).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 60 B 6 (illustrated p. 236).
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Lot Essay

"I do not want to make a painting, I want to open space, create a new dimension for art, tie in at the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture. With my innovation of the hole pierced through the canvas in repetitive formations, I have not attempted to decorate a surface, but, on the contrary, I have tried to break its dimensional limitations. Beyond the perforations, a newly gained freedom of interpretation awaits us, but also, and just as inevitably, the end of art" (Lucio Fontana quoted in Lucio Fontana, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis 1966)

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