When Lucio Fontana cuts the surface of his paintings, he proposes a different way of drawing images, making it clear that the formal strategies of artistic production are not exclusive to his medium. The action of cutting the canvas is understood as a line that shapes the surface, transforming it into a sculptural object.
From this point on, the form-content relationship opens up passages that overflow the boundaries and definitions between the different artistic media. Previously conceived as immovable elements, full and complete in themselves, the media open up, shift, and empty themselves, ceasing to contain and perpetuate meanings and allowing them to circulate. And so, in this way, the modern reflection on the medium as an end in itself
ceases to be relevant.
Today, due to the historical distance we have taken from the 20th century, the question of drawing, painting, and sculpture seems "outdated," and we have even spoken of a "post-media" art. However, speaking about the relevance of anything is only possible if we are aware of what differentiates a before from a now. Thus, a post-media art is only possible if we consider its condition.
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