Counter Checked, 1966

Painting with white wax crayon on black paper, unique specimen

Dimensions: 70 x 50 cm

Heinz Mack has been intensively concerned with the problems of light since 1956. He begins to create paintings that are limited to a scale of black and white values and vertically or horizontally joined straight lines. This is how he created his so-called "Dynamic Structures", in which he dealt with the themes of light, movement, space, time, dynamics and vibration.

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 is regarded as a tireless experimenter in the spectrum of coloured light and was awarded numerous prizes for his work. His works are represented internationally, for example in the Guggenheim Collection in New York.