Artist field note

Lucio Fontana

The canvas opens into real space.

Appears inItaly
Spatial Concept, Expectations by Lucio Fontana — Example from the series
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Spatial Concept, Expectations

1959

A clean cut turns the picture surface from illusion into threshold.

The five in one idea

Fontana replaced the painted image with an actual breach between object, space and the unknown.