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Systems of Clarity

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ART–OTH–FON

Index Code:

ART–OTH–FON

Orgin:

Rosario, Argentina / Milan, Italy

Field Notes:

cut as gesture · void as structure · space as dimension

Defining Moment:

Early 1940s — cut as gesture; order clarified

Lucio Fontana

(

1899–1968

)

loo-cho fon-tah-nah

Fontana built a world opened by incision.

His slashed canvases are portals between surface and space — violence turned to serenity.

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In his world, the cut is clarity: a single gesture expanding perception.

Structural Focus

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Lucio Fontana’s work, this approach appears where incision activates space as structure.

Position

Boundary as Event

Edges, margins, thresholds, or limits carry meaning. Structure concentrates where form nearly disappears.

In Lucio Fontana’s work, this approach appears where incision activates space as structure.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Space is treated as an active, penetrable medium.

Geometry and logic replace expression and illusion.

Observartory

Rokko Housing — Tadao Ando

Lucio Fontana — Spatial Concepts

Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

matter as irony

Geometry as logic

In Dialogue

Jan Schoonhoven

Light as movement