Spatial concept
(Concetto spaziale)
(1964-1965)
- Medium
- metallic paint on canvas
- Measurements
- 91.0 × 73.5 cm
- Inscription
- incised in paint l.c.r.: Luciano Fontana
inscribed in pencil on reverse u.c.: l. Fontana / ,,Concetto Spaziale,, - Accession Number
- EA3-1973
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1973 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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After he began studying at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, in 1928, Lucio Fontana forged his own approach to abstract art based on futurist notions of space and motion and the enthralling technological advances of the emerging space age. Fontana developed the fundamental concepts of what would become known as Spatialism in Argentina between 1939 and 1947. After he returned to Milan in 1947, Fontana sought ways to, as he wrote, ‘open up space, create a new dimension’ and ‘tie in the cosmos, as it endlessly expands beyond the confining plane of the picture’. The first of his ‘puncture canvases’, his Buchi (holes) series, was produced in 1949 and followed ten years later by Tagli (slashes).
- Subjects (general)
- Concepts and Ideas Nonrepresentational Art
- Subjects (specific)
- circles (plane figures) gold (colour) metallic (colour attribute) perforating space (composition concept) texture (artistic concept)
- Movements
- Spatialism
