Lucio Fontana Spatial Concept: Expectation, 1960 Slashed canvas and gauze MoMA, Floor 4, 405 Fontana “began slashing his canvases in 1949. This iconoclastic gesture destroyed painting as a receptacle of illusions and left viewers contemplating a real cut, which Fontana described as ‘the beginning of a sculpture in space.’” visited on February 13, 2:36-2:37pm two days ago i touched a design on a handmade tie from Title or Work that reminded me of this piece; today i passed by it by coincidence.