



Piramide (Blue)
1967
Piramide (Blue) distills Lucio Fontana's lifelong inquiry into space, surface, and void into a single, quietly commanding object. Executed in lacquered steel and punctuated by a series of carefully placed holes, this small-scale sculpture from 1967 extends the conceptual logic of the artist's celebrated Concetti Spaziali works into three dimensions, translating the act of puncturing into a geometric form charged with both physical presence and spatial openness. The lacquer's deep blue intensifies the interplay between solid volume and perforation, inviting the eye to move across the surface and through it, collapsing the boundary between object and surrounding space in a manner wholly consistent with the Spatialist principles Fontana had been developing since the late 1940s. Produced in an edition of fifty and bearing the artist's signature, the work belongs to a refined body of multiples in which Fontana extended his ideas to a broader audience without compromising their intellectual or material integrity. Authenticity has been confirmed by the Fondazione Lucio Fontana, providing collectors with the provenance assurance that works of this caliber demand. At just 12 by 13.5 centimetres, Piramide (Blue) possesses an intimacy that belies its conceptual ambition, rewarding close attention and sitting comfortably within a sophisticated collection as both a sculptural object and a philosophical statement about the nature of form, light, and the space that matter leaves behind.
- Medium
- Lacquered steel with punched holes
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Repetto Gallery
For Sale — €8000
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Yves Klein
French · b. 1928

Klein similarly pursued monochrome surfaces as radical conceptual statements, treating a single unified color field as a spatial and philosophical gesture rather than traditional painting, directly paralleling Fontana's Spatial Concept works in their austere minimalism and avant-garde intent.
Piero Manzoni
Italian · b. 1933
Manzoni's Achromes, featuring textured white and near-white surfaces stripped of conventional pictorial content, share the same experimental Italian modernist sensibility and conceptual approach to surface and materiality seen in Fontana's monochrome etched and textured works.

Günther Uecker
German · b. 1930

Uecker creates monochrome white textured surfaces with radical physical interventions, embedding nails into canvases to generate optical and spatial energy, producing works that echo Fontana's conceptual transformation of surface through material gesture and kinetic visual rhythm.

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