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Lot Essay
'In art the revolution is social and not just visual. It is a revolution in thought. The evolution of art is something internal, something philosophical and is not a visual phenomenon... people begin to think and decide whether in the future art will have a raison d'être or whether it will have finished its usefulness. Art is a creation of man and is not a material fact like eating and sleeping. It is a creation which at a given moment can come to an end or be superseded by other sciences. Art is only thought in evolution and if human thought should evolve into such dimensions that art becomes in time superficial, then that is the end of art... Art may become so superficial that it will be, if not repudiated, at least overtaken' (L. 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).