Concetto spaziale, Attese

Details

Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto spaziale, Attese
signed, titled and numbered 'l. Fontana concetto spaziale Attese 1+1-33450' (on the reverse)
waterpaint on canvas
23 5/8 x 31 7/8in. (60 x 81cm.)
Executed in 1960

Provenance

Galleria del Leone, Venice.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in the 1970s.

Literature

E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogue raisonné, vol. II, Brussels 1974, no. 60 T 45 (illustrated incorrectly as 60 T 64, p. 94).
E. Crispolti, Lucio Fontana catalogo generale, vol. II, Milan 1986, no. 60 T 45 (illustrated, p. 320).

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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... Einsteins 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' (quoted in E. Crispolti, 'Spatialism and Informel. The Fifties', pp. 144-150 in Lucio Fontana, ed. Crispolti & R. Siligato, Milan 1998, p. 146).

Concetto spaziale, Attese

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