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Lucio Fontana — Piramide (Blue)
Lucio Fontana — Piramide (Blue)
Lucio Fontana — Piramide (Blue)
Lucio Fontana — Piramide (Blue)
Lucio Fontana

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

For Sale — €8000

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Lucio Fontana, 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
Dimensions
overall: 12 x 13.5 x 13.5 cm
Year
1967
Edition
of 50
Signed
Hand-signed by the artist
Seen at
Repetto Gallery, Lugano

Related themes

Sculpture, Geometric Form, Industrial Materials, Italian, Mid-Century Modern, Three-Dimensional, Abstract, Minimalism

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