Heinz Mack

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Heinz Mack (born March 8, 1931 in Lollar, Germany) is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founds the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art. Heinz Mack was born is 1931 in a small German village. Between 1950 and 1956 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Together with Otto Piene he started 1957 a series of so called Abendausstellungen (evening exhibitions) at their studio in Düsseldorf. This series was the initial event for the formation of the group ZERO (with the nucleus Mack, Piene and Günther Uecker) and the international ZERO movement. Among the participants of the ZERO movement were Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni and Jean Tinguely. In 1964 Mack, Piene and Uecker arranged the “ZERO Lichtraum (Hommage á Lucio Fontana)” at the 1964 documenta in Kassel. 1964 to 1966 Mack lives and works in New York where the Howard Wise Gallery presented a solo exhibition in 1966. 1970 Mack was invited as visiting professor to Osaka, Japan. At the same year he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale (together with Günther Uecker, Georg Karl Pfahler and Thomas Lenk). For the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich he created an illuminated “Wasserwolke” (Water cloud). (Wikipedia)

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