Homage to Liechtenstein, 1993

Serigraph under plexiglass

Dimensions: 130 x 104.5 x 2 cm

The central artistic theme of Heinz Mack is light. In his silkscreen prints, the artist transfers the energy of light into pigments and forms "colour as light and (the) light as colour". In 1998, he designed a set of special stamps called "Hommage to Liechtenstein" for the Liechtenstein Post Office - this serigraph is from this commissioned work.

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.