Lucio Fontana (1899-1968)
Concetto Spaziale - Teatrino (rosso)
signed and numbered '23/75 l. fontana' (on the reverse)
shaped cardboard
27½ x 27½in. (70 x 70cm.)
Executed in 1968, this work is number twenty-three from an edition of seventy-five plus twenty artist's proofs

Provenance:
Anon. sale, Dorotheum, 19 May 2010, lot 496.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature:
H. Ruhé and C. Rigo, Lucio Fontana: Graphics, Multiples and More..., Trento 2007, no. M-7 (another from the edition illustrated in colour, p. 157).

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Specialist Notes:

In the Teatrini Lucio Fontana introduces a playful figurative element to his work, cutting protrusions into a box-like frame to depict stylized organic forms that stand out in relief. Literally meaning ‘little theatres’ the Teatrini invite the viewer - as an audience in front of a stage - to contemplate beyond the limitations of foreground shapes, and even the scope of the horizon line suggested by the holes, into the deep space beyond. In this sense the work is a theatrical mise en scène of Fontana’s signature spatial experimentations, aiming at revealing sculptural potential beyond the limits of two dimensionality.

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