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Lucio Fontana — Spatial Concepts
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Cut as Space
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Systems of Clarity
Atlas Index:
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Origin:
Milan
Era:
1950s–1960s
Themes / Lineage:
surface tension • boundary logic
Field Notes:
cut as boundary • surface opening • pressure
Quiet Modernism appears here as space generated through subtraction.

Cut as Space

Lucio Fontana — Spatial Concepts

A removal opens volume.

Void defines form.

Edge frames space.

What comes into being?
A cut might be expected to register loss, yet it does not function as subtraction alone. Removal opens relation. What persists is space formed through absence.

A cut might be expected to register loss, yet it does not function as subtraction alone.

Removal opens relation.

What persists is space formed through absence.

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Artist Overview

Lucio Fontana
Cut as gesture

In Dialogue

Barnett Newman
scale as presence
James Turrell
Light as architecture
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