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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, titled, dedicated and dated 'l. fontana concetto spaziale 54 in omaggio all'erede Guglielmelli l. fontana 57' (on the reverse)
oil and coloured glass on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 3/8in. (65 x 80cm.)
Executed in 1954
Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist by the father of the present owner in the 1960s.
Literature
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, catalogue raisonné, vol. I, Brussels 1974, no. 54 P 4 (illustrated p. 33).
E. Crispolti, Fontana Catalogo generale, vol. I, Milan 1986, no. 54 P 4 (illustrated p. 124).
Exhibited
Venice, XXXIV Biennale Internazionale d'Arte di Venezia, 1966, no. 60 (illustrated p. 19).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Spatial is what is " beyond the perspective...the discovery of the cosmos...Which are all ideals aren't they? Foreground, middleground and perspective, which is the third dimension and which is also parallel to the discovery of science....Einstein's discovery of the cosmos is the infinite dimension, without end. And here we have the foreground, middleground and background, what do I have to do to go further? I make a hole , infinity passes through it, light passes through it, there is no need to paint...everyone thought I wanted to destroy; but it is not true, I have constructed." (Fontana in conversation with Carla Lonzi, 1967, reproduced in Autoritratto, C. Lonzi, Bari 1969 p. 176).

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