Heinz Mack

Ohne Titel (Farbchromatik)
1971

Heinz Mack, Ohne Titel (Farbchromatik)

pastel on Hahnemühle velin paper

107 × 78 cm / 42 1/8 × 30 11/16 in

Signed and dated »71«

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Expertise

We would like to thank the Atelier Prof. Heinz Mack, Mönchengladbach, for the kind confirmation of the work’s authenticity

Provenance

The artist’s studio; Galerie Neher, Essen; Private Collection Switzerland (since 1991)

Exhibitions
  • Galerie Ludorff, Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2021, Düsseldorf 2021
Literature
  • Galerie Ludorff, "Neuerwerbungen Frühjahr 2021", Düsseldorf 2021, S. 112

Light, colour, movement. Heinz Mack's entire artistic oeuvre probably revolves around these three concepts. Impressed by all imaginable earthly impressions of light and colour, Mack tries to capture and reproduce them. He wants to make the viewer aware of the fullness of the colour spectrum. Our work shows this attempt, which he himself calls "colour chromatics" or "colour constellations". For Mack, light and colour cannot be separated from each other. That is why he does not simply depict colour, but wants to express light itself as colour. It is also of the utmost importance to him to visualise their relationship to one another. Mack shows spectral colours arranged horizontally on top of each other. The individual chromatic colours can be clearly distinguished from one another and yet each one runs visibly into the next. This impression is supported by fine vertical lines that run through the entire motif. They lend the picture an even greater dynamism. This ambivalence between the clearly divided and therefore static colour bars and the movement, based on the mixing of the colours and the vertical stripes, is fundamental to these works. The colour palette ranges from blue to green, via yellow and orange to red. The use of the spectral colours almost automatically creates a harmony, which is further enhanced by the different colour temperatures. The sensations evoked in the viewer in turn emphasise the concept of movement in the picture. Mack himself describes this effect as the vibration of colour.1 This even seems to detach the motif from its form beyond the edge of the picture.

1 Quoted from: Gabriele Holthuis (ed.), "Heinz Mack. The light of my colours", Dortmund 2015, p. 15.

About Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack is co-founder of the ZERO movement. Light is the central element of his work, which can be assigned to kinetic art and Land Art.

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