In 1949 Lucio Fontana started his Concetti Spaziali series, marking a turning point in his career by puncturing the painted surface of the canvas with an awl. This early Concetto Spaziale was originally titled Buchi, the title of the series it is part of. The physical act of making holes acquired a profound conceptual meaning: projecting space and time into a finite object. Expanding from the center of the canvas, the holes create a scattered pattern reminiscent of the shape of constellations. The arrangement of color reinforces the composition’s “centrality.” The circular shapes are reminiscent of the Sun and the Earth, alluding to ancestral astronomical discoveries. Art Informel aesthetics, which Fontana later abandoned, are expressed here in the loose brushstrokes that emphasize materiality.