Diabase prism, 1988

Sculpture made of hard stone, roughly sprayed to polished, unique specimen.

Mass: 99 x 33 x 20 cm

Heinz Mack uses a wide variety of media and forms of representation, including sculpture. The form of his sculptures is often the stele; this aims at visual transformation through light, it concretises the space and becomes its energetic centre. "Ideally, a certain space, a certain light, a certain sculpture and a certain viewer come together; this seems self-evident, but it is not," says Heinz Mack.

Born in Lollar, Hesse, in 1931, Heinz Mack studied at the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1950-1953. Together with Otto Piene, he founded the internationally influential group ZERO in 1957. Heinz Mack is one of the main representatives of Kinetic Art and is regarded as a tireless experimenter with the possibilities of light. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work, and his works can be found in around 100 public collections all over the world, for example in the Guggenheim Collection, New York.