Visual Art

Lucio Fontana - Spacialism

From 1949 on Lucio Fontana started his so-called Spatial Concept or slash series, consisting in holes or slashes on the surface of monochrome paintings, drawing a sign of what he named "an art for the Space Age". He devised the generic title Concetto spaziale (‘spatial concept’) for these works and used it for almost all his later paintings. Fontana often lined the reverse of his canvases with black gauze so that the darkness would shimmer behind the open cuts and create a mysterious sense of illusion and depth. (Wikipedia)
I really like this artwork as he goes beyond the 2 dimensional constraints of the canvas and instead creates holes or slashes within the canvas. Below are some examples.