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Lot Essay
This work is recorded in the Archivio Lucio Fontana under the temporary archive no. 376/19.
'In five hundred years time people will not talk of art, they will talk of other problems and art will be like going to see a curiosity like the two rocks put together by the first caveman. What were they up to? Why did they cover walls with pictures? Today man is on earth and these things are all things that man has done while on earth, but do you think man will have time to produce art while travelling through the universe? He will only have time to travel through space and discover marvellous things, things so beautiful that things here will seem worthless. Today's young people are still too tied to the earth. Man must free himself completely from the earth, only then will the direction that he will take in the future become clear. Today we are still too firmly glued to the earth. And since I believe in man's intelligence - it is the only thing in which I believe, more so than in God, for me God is man's intelligence - I am convinced that the man of the future will have a completely new world' (Fontana, quoted in Tommaso Trini, 'The last interview given by Fontana', pp.34-36, Wim Beeren & Nicholas Serota, Lucio Fontana, exh. Cat., Amsterdam & London, 1988, p.36).
'In five hundred years time people will not talk of art, they will talk of other problems and art will be like going to see a curiosity like the two rocks put together by the first caveman. What were they up to? Why did they cover walls with pictures? Today man is on earth and these things are all things that man has done while on earth, but do you think man will have time to produce art while travelling through the universe? He will only have time to travel through space and discover marvellous things, things so beautiful that things here will seem worthless. Today's young people are still too tied to the earth. Man must free himself completely from the earth, only then will the direction that he will take in the future become clear. Today we are still too firmly glued to the earth. And since I believe in man's intelligence - it is the only thing in which I believe, more so than in God, for me God is man's intelligence - I am convinced that the man of the future will have a completely new world' (Fontana, quoted in Tommaso Trini, 'The last interview given by Fontana', pp.34-36, Wim Beeren & Nicholas Serota, Lucio Fontana, exh. Cat., Amsterdam & London, 1988, p.36).