"I do not want to make a painting, I want to open space, create a new dimension for art, tie in at the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture. With my innovation of the hole pierced through the canvas in repetitive formations, I have not attempted to decorate a surface, but, on the contrary, I have tried to break its dimensional limitations. Beyond the perforations, a newly gained freedom of interpretation awaits us, but also, and just as inevitably, the end of art" (Lucio Fontana quoted in Lucio Fontana, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis 1966)