JOURNAL IV: Lucio Fontana and the Egg The End of God, or the Opening of Everything?
"I want to open up space... create a new dimension."

So declared Lucio Fontana-sculptor, painter, spatialist, and cosmic visionary.

Best known for slashing his monochrome canvases, Fontana's most radical gesture may well be his pierced, egg-shaped paintings: Concetto Spaziale, La Fine di Dio (The End of God). Created in the fervent space-age 1960s, these vast ovals-riddled with holes and drenched in acidic, sacred color-refused the frame, the surface, and the static idea of painting itself. They announced not an end, but an opening.

With each violent incision, Fontana wasn't destroying the canvas—he was birthing a new cosmos. The egg, long a symbol of creation and resurrection, became in his hands a site of spiritual rupture. The void inside it no longer signified absence, but infinity. A theology turned inside out.

Cosmic Shells, Sacred Wounds

The egg form was not chosen lightly. It recurs throughout Fontana's oeuvre-in punctured brass sculptures, in cavernous ceramics, in the monumental Natura series-each one a planetary relic, cracked open under the weight of human searching.

For Fontana, the egg was both ancient and prophetic: the origin of life and the container of the void. His pierced surfaces mirrored the mystery of outer space-silence, darkness, potential -while drawing from millennia of symbolism, from Egyptian creation myths to Christian resurrection to cosmic entropy.

In his words: "I make holes. Infinity passes through them. Light passes through them."

Matter Transformed

Fontana envisioned the artist not as decorator but as cosmonaut-someone who could pierce the veil of material and open new spatial realms. In his perforated ovals, metaphysics met material, and sculpture dissolved into energy. Art became an act of rupture-at once sacrilegious and sacred.

A Symbol Reimagined

At Marquisate, the egg is never just an object-it's a vessel for symbolism, ambiguity, and transformation. Like Fontana's astral works, our glass pieces draw on the mystical allure of the ovoid form, balancing delicacy with rupture, wholeness with experimentation.

Our collectible editions are shaped not only by fire and breath, but by meaning—where the spiral speaks of endless motion, and the egg invites the unknown. Fontana's eggs remind us that to puncture tradition is not to destroy it, but to illuminate what lies beyond.