Lucio Fontana

Collezione Privata, Milano
Ivi acquistato dall'attuale proprietario nel 2010 circa

This work is in good overall condition. There are some light rubs along the margins where the old frame was placed. In correspondance with those rubs there are some pin-pointed retouchings visible under UV light. Color is warmer compared to the catalogue illustration.
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L'attualità rinnovata delle formulazioni di Fontana consiste evidentemente in una disponibilità propositiva all'implicazione utopica, in una visione tipicamente positiva (di lontano eco futurista, e di ancor più lontano eco di libertà spaziali barocche), di possibilità di trasformazione della realtà materiale, sia attraverso le virtualità di una mentalità spaziale cosmica, sia attraverso la risorsa di un'indomabile inventività plastica, sul solco di una profonda autenticità di testimone del proprio tempo.

The renewed relevance of Fontana's formulations consists evidently in a constructive openness to the utopian implication, in a tipically positive vision (with distant echoes of Futurism, and still more remotes ones of baroque spatial liberties), of the possibility of the transformation of material reality, through both the virtuality of a cosmic spatial mentality and the resource of a indomitable plastic inventiveness, rooted in his profound authenticity as a witness of his own time.
Enrico Crispolti, Un'attualità oltre, in Lucio Fontana. Beyond Space, Milano 2008, pp.14-15

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