FONTANA LUCIO (1899 - 1968) Lot n° 19

FONTANA LUCIO (1899 - 1968) SPATIAL CONCEPT, 1957. engobed terracotta, painted, holes and graffiti: blue and black. Cm 46.50x46.50x4.50. signature and dateOn the back: stamp Galleria d'Arte il Prisma, MilanThe work is registered with the Lucio Fontana Foundation under no. 3319/1PROVENIENCEPrivate collection, GallarateGalleria d'arte il Prisma, MilanPrivate collection, MilanExPOSITIONGalleria del Cavallino, Venice 1957Galleria del Naviglio, Milan 1957BIBLIOGRAPHYAL'Europeo, XVIII, no. 27, July 8, 1962. p. 33, Gottschaller, 2008, p. 39L'Europeo, XII, no. 7, July 2013, p. 59L. M. Barbero, Lucio Fontana. Catalogo ragionato delle sculture ceramiche, Milan 2022, vol. I, p. 106 and vol. II, p. 483, no. 57 SPC 55 "I hole, the infinite passes through there, the light passes, there is no need to paint. Everyone believed that I wanted to destroy: but that's not true, I built, not destroyed, that's where the thing is. That, afterwards, I give it an aesthetic structuring [...] is a reason of aesthetic taste."(Lucio Fontana)