Concetto Spaziale, Attese
Lucio Fontana
LUCIO FONTANA, 1968. WATERPAINT ON CANVAS.
When Lucio Fontana took a razor blade to a canvas, he didn’t just slice a single canvas but instead cut open the entire Italian canon. The father of Spatialism, Fontana created a space for energy to infiltrate the two dimensional plane and achieve dynamic forms of expression. In doing so, his works approach infinity. The simple act of creating a hole or a slash adds a mathematical dimension and turns painting into sculpture. He creates empty, weightless meaning, and then allows a metaphysical space to exist within it. For Fontana, his works approach cosmic unity – in the small emptiness of the canvas and the impossible expanse of space we can find the same infinity. ‘I make holes, the infinite goes through them, light passes through them, there is no need to paint…’ said Fontana.