'I have chosen the name 'Motif on Voids' for the work I shall show at the next Venice Biennale, because this is the best way I know of taking up my long and rather arduous quest again, one which aims at finding a way out of arid Post - Cubist and Abstract 'biodimensionalism.' It seems to me that the only legitimate foundation for a real figurative interpretation lies in the rediscovery of dimensionless space, conceived as a plastic void; that is to say, the modulation of light and shade.' (1954)