Lucio Fontana

Private collection, Italy

This lot is registered in the Fondazione Lucio Fontana Milan, Italy, under the no. 3528/ 1 A & B and it is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, Milan, Italy.

'All things arise out of necessity and enhance the needs of their time. Transformations in the material means of life determine human frames of mind through history. [...]

We require the surpassing of painting, sculpture, and poetry. We now demand an art based on the necessity of this new vision. The Baroque period has led us in this direction, representing it as a grandiosity not yet overcome where the notion of time is united with the plastic, the figures seem to leave the plane and continue the represented movements in space.'

Enrico Crispolti, Rosella Siligato, Lucio Fontana, Milano 1998, pp.174-75, part of the Manifesto Tecnico read by Lucio Fontana during the I International Congress of the Proportion, during the IX Triennale di Milano in 1951.