Venice, there is also a major exhibition by Heinz Mack among the Biennale's collateral events

After turning 90 last year, the great German sculptor and painter Heinz Mack (Lollar, 1931) returns to the Venice Biennale, in a Collateral Event for the 59. International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. He does so with Heinz Mack -Vibration of Light / Vibration of Light, a solo exhibition curated by Manfred Möller. Heinz Mack, among the world’s leading exponents of kinetic art, already represented Germany in 1970 at the 35th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, the ZERO group artist, who had developed his own language in the light art of the 1950s, exhibited his installation The Sky over Nine Columns , consisting of nine immense golden pillars, in front of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore in conjunction with the Architecture Biennale.

Now the sculptor is returning to Venice. In Heinz Mack -Vibration of Light / Vibration of Light, which is part of the official program of the Collateral Events of the Biennale Arte 2022, large-format paintings, a set of partially rotating light stelae and a four-meter-tall mirror sculpture, created especially for this project, are on display, presenting a retrospective of the artist’s work from the past 60 years. In the historic Sansovino Monumental Hall, accessible through the Correr Museum, Mack’s works are placed in an art-historical dialogue with wall paintings and ceiling tondi by Renaissance artists, Tintoretto, Veronese and Titian. An extension of this exhibition will be freely usable in an inner courtyard of the Royal Palace, adjacent to the Biblioteca Marciana, where a 3.40-meter-high stainless steel stele of the artist will be placed. The courtyard is accessible both from St. Mark’s Square and, at the time the mobile connection is activated, from the Royal Gardens.

Heinz Mack, who in 1957 founded the ZERO group together with Otto Piene, which remained active until 1966, addresses the theme of light in his work with the aim of exploring it in its purity. In fact, the artist, as a pioneer of Land Art, placed his experimental light stelae and light objects in pristine natural landscapes such as the Sahara and later also the Arctic since the early 1960s. On display now in the Monumental Rooms of the Marciana Library are seven large-scale works on canvas and eight reflective and partially rotating stelae made of satin-finished aluminum and polished steel. Through the principle of rotation, which Heinz Mack also addresses in painting, light in space is not only captured and returned holistically, but sometimes even dematerializes the objects themselves.

The highlight of the presentation is the 6 x 3.5-meter painting entitled DerGarten Eden (The Garden of Eden). Here the theme of light, which Mack has been continually rethinking for more than 60 years, culminates in a multicolored, monumental color field painting that aims to demonstrate how essential light is to our existence and the continuation of life on earth.

The entire conception of the exhibition is the brainchild of Dirk Geuer, Düsseldorf, who strongly desired it and is made possible through the support of Geuer & Geuer Art Düsseldorf.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a catalog and a portfolio consisting of three previously unpublished prints by the artist will be published.

Info: https://bibliotecanazionalemarciana.cultura.gov.it/

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Venice, there is also a major exhibition by Heinz Mack among the Biennale's collateral events

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