“It's not true that I made holes in the canvas in order to destroy it. No, I made holes in order to discover, to find the cosmos of an unknown dimension." —Lucio Fontana Have you ever seen a work of art and wondered, "how is this art?" An artist's motives, inspirations, and thought processes can play a big role in deciphering their work. ✨ Lucio Fontana was obsessed with the concept of space and space travel. In 1946, as a professor of sculpting, he helped to promote the philosophy that a new art was necessary to reflect the modern world. He encouraged his students to embrace new conceptual approaches to creating art. Fontana founded the Spatialism art movement in 1947, not long after the first ever photos of Earth taken from a rocket appeared in magazines around the world. The movement's manifesto, "Manifesto Blanco," stated that art should embrace science and technology. In the last year of his career, Fontana became increasingly interested in the idea of purity achieved in his last white canvases, passing away three years after creating this work, "Concetto spaziale, Attese." ___ Pictured: Lucio Fontana, "Concetto spaziale, Attese," 1965. © 2022 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome. #LucioFontana