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Lot Essay
'If any of my discoveries are important, the "hole" is. By "hole" I meant going outside the limitations of a picture frame and being free in one's conception of art. A formula like 1+1=2. I did not make holes in order to wreck the picture. On the contrary, I made holes in order to find something else... I can talk about it today, because they were basically my ideas. They never understood. They used to say that I ripped up canvases, destroyed things and wanted to break the rules. But that's not true. Look at Pollock... I have argued with a few Americans. Once an American in Venice said to me, "You're the spatialist but you don't understand about spaces. Who are you anyway?' Later he got to know me but did not understand anything. He found out that I am Fontana and am a spatialist. "But how can you understand space? We've got Arizona. There's space for you..." So I said to him, "Look, if it comes to that, I come from South America and we have the Pampas which is twice the size of Arizona. I am not interested in the kind of space you are talking about. Mine is a different dimension." The "hole" is this dimension' (L. Fontana, quoted by T. Trini, 'The last interview given by Fontana', pp.34-36, in W. Beeren & N. Serota, Lucio Fontana, Amsterdam & London 1988, p.34).