Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack is a German artist, living and working in Mönchengladbach and Ibiza. Mack's principle concern is with light, and he considers his sculptures and paintings a medium only for the transport of light. In 1957 Mack founded the ZERO Group with fellow artists Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, who stated their manifesto: 'ZERO is the beginning'. ZERO is now acknowledged as one of the most important avant-garde movements of art history of the post-war period. Agreeing a historical and artistic point zero, the artists within the group developed innovative artistic principles as well as bold aesthetic ideas. The desire to experiment and find new materials for art and to link into an international network defined the innovative force of the ZERO artists, whose practice also reacted against Art Informel and... Show more

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