Lot 189
  • 189

Heinz Mack

Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description

  • Heinz Mack
  • Silber Rotor
  • incised with the artist's signature and date 63 on the reverse 
  • stainless steel and corrugated glass mechanic construction 
  • 44 1/2 by 68 by 8 3/4 in. 44 1/2 by 172.7 by 22.3 cm.

Provenance

Beck & Eggeling, Düsseldorf
Acquired from the above by the present owner in November 2010 

Literature

Exh. Cat., Cologne, Galerie Holtmann, Heinz Mack. Zero-Zeit, Bilder, Skulpturen und Alu-Reliefs von 1956-1966, 2001, p. 33

Catalogue Note

"The Zero group emerged from a shared studio space inhabited from 1957 to 1958 by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, who were joined by Günther Uecker in 1960. The group's name signified a desire to make a fresh start and explore new media, such as light, time, movement, and color in art. The name also referred to both the mathematical sign for infinity and to the void, a state of quiet and tranquility out of which the new would emerge."

Armin Medosch, New Tendencies: Art at the Threshold of the Information Revolution (1961 - 1978), Cambridge 2016, p. 39