{"product_id":"lucio-fontana-concetto-spaziale-1959","title":"Lucio Fontana — Concetto Spaziale (1959)","description":"\u003cp\u003eLucio Fontana's \u003cem\u003eConcetto Spaziale\u003c\/em\u003e of 1959 belongs to the sequence of works with which the artist redefined what a painting could be. Born in Rosario and trained in Milan, Fontana spent the post-war years arguing — in his manifestos and, above all, in his materials — that the surface of the picture was no longer a window but a boundary to be crossed. The punctures, cuts and perforations that gave the series its name are not gestures of destruction: they open the canvas onto the space behind it, turning a two-dimensional support into a physical, three-dimensional fact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis example is executed on a metal sheet, a support that Fontana used to sharpen the argument. The reflective, industrial surface refuses the softness of canvas and makes the light itself part of the work: the incisions read as apertures, the sheet catches and throws back the room, and the composition shifts with every change of viewpoint. The tactile, almost architectural presence of the metal gives the piece a weight that canvas versions of the same idea do not have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe work is signed and dated by the artist, and its documentation is unusually complete: it is reproduced in \u003cem\u003eLa Lune en Rodage I\u003c\/em\u003e, the 1960 publication curated by Carl Laszlo, and it is included in the catalogue raisonné of Fontana's work. For collectors, that combination — a signed and dated Concetto Spaziale, a publication history contemporary with the work, and catalogue raisonné inclusion — is precisely the evidentiary chain that sustains value in Fontana's market, where the spatial works remain the most internationally traded segment of Italian post-war art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Collecto Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58052979327316,"sku":"75","price":24200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0975\/9083\/7588\/files\/file-1706839293421-FON-118_Fontana_CS_from_La_lune_en_rodage.jpg?v=1793381605","url":"https:\/\/collectoarchive.com\/products\/lucio-fontana-concetto-spaziale-1959","provider":"Collecto Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}