Article source: Norisada Maeda

Cut through air. 
Italian painter Lucio Fontana had left works in which he would just rip up blank canvases with palette knives.

 The implication of it is that the act of ripping leads to an ex-post discovery of a situation where 
‘tensile force is exerted upon the canvas surface’ which was up to then not visible to the eye.

Image Courtesy © N Maeda Atelier

• Architects: N Maeda Atelier 
• Project: Fontana
• Location: Numazu Shizuoka, Japan
• Site area: 365.25m2
• Total floor area: 181.90m2
• Function: Private residence
• Structural system: Steel Structure 2F
• Finish of construction: November 2005

Major materials

• Exterior: Metal finish
• Interior: gypsum plaster board finish