Concetto spaziale, Attese

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Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and inscribed 'l. fontana concetto spaziale "ATTESE" 1 + 1 - 8855 T' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
21¼ x 28 7/8in. (54 x 73.3cm.)
Executed in 1961

Provenance

Elizabeth Forberg, Zollikon.
Anon. sale; Christie's London, 1 July 1980, lot 348.
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale.

Literature

K. Leonhard, "Lucio Fontana", Das Kunstwerk, n. 1-2/XV, Baden-Baden, July-August 1961, pp. 14-26 (illustrated).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana, Catalogue raisonné des peintures, sculptures et environnements spatiaux, vol. II, Brussels, 1974, no. 61 T 25 (illustrated p. 127).
E. Crispolti, Fontana, Catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan, 1986, no. 61 T 25 (illustrated p. 428).

Exhibited

Zurich, Kunsthaus Zürich, Vereinigung Zürcher Kunstfreunde zeigen Ihr meistdiskutiertes Kunstwerk, October-November 1971, no. 48.

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Lot Essay

'The discovery of the cosmos is a new dimension, it is infinity, so I make a hole in this canvas, which was at the basis of all the arts and I have created an infinite dimension... the idea is precisely that, it is a new dimension corresponding to the cosmos... The hole is, precisely, creating this void behind there... Einstein's discovery of the cosmos is the infinite dimension, without end. And so here we have: foreground, middleground and background... to go farther what do I have to do?... I make holes, infinity passes through them, light passes through them, there is no need to paint' (L. Fontana, quoted in E. Crispolti, 'Spatialism and Informel. The Fifties', pp. 144-150, exh. cat., Lucio Fontana, Milan, 1998, p. 146).

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