Black light field, 1960

Wall object made of synthetic resin, pigments and tar paint on burlap, laminated on wood, unique piece.

Dimensions: 147 x 95 cm

Light is at the centre of Heinz Mack's artistic work. Synthetic resin, pigments and tar paint serve as materials in this work, which already have an elementary and powerful character due to their natural composition - intensified by the combination with light. The strictly laid out vertical and horizontal straight lines create a rhythmic boundary within which a scale of black values comes into effect, giving the work its name.

Born in Lollar, Hesse, in 1931, Heinz Mack attended the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1950 to 1953. Together with Otto Piene, he founded the internationally influential group ZERO in Düsseldorf in 1957. Heinz Mack was awarded numerous prizes for his work and is internationally successful - for example, he is represented in the Guggenheim Collection in New York.