ZERO
Subtitle: countdown to the future
By: editorial: Mattijs Visser, Thekla Zell ; curator: Mattijs Visser ; exhibiition concept: Dr. Nazan Ölçer, Mattijs Visser, Sir Norman Rosenthal
Contributors: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi
Publisher: AKBANK Sanat; Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum
Published: 2015
Place of publication: İstanbul
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9786059178044; 9786059178051
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Zero (Group of artists); Exhibitions; German Art; Modern Art; Groupe Zéro (Groupe d'artistes); Expositions; Art allemand; Art; ZERO
Other titles: Countdown to the future
Description: " ... presents the first large-scale survey in a Turkish museum dedicated to the history of the experimental German artists' group Zero (1957-66) and ZERO, an international network of artists that shared the group's aspiration to redefine and transform art in the aftermath of World War II. The exhibition featured work by the three core members of Group Zero--Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker--and by more than 40 artists from 10 countries who comprised the larger ZERO network, including Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and herman de vries. These artists found common cause in the desire to use novel materials drawn from everyday life, nature, and technology and to develop innovative techniques and formats such as room-scaled installations, kinetic artworks, and live art actions. Focusing on the points of intersection, exchange, and collaboration that define the ZERO artists' shared history, the exhibition is at once a snapshot of a specific group and a portrait of a generation. ZERO: Countdown to the Future celebrates the pioneering nature of ZERO art and the transnational vision advanced by this network of artists during a pivotal decade."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held in Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum, September 2, 2015-January 10, 2016.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Suzan Sabancı Dinçer; title: preface  -- Dr. Nazan Ölçer; title: preface  -- Mattijs Visser; title: ZERO from Düsseldorf  -- Sir Norman Rosenthal; title: notes on ZERO  -- Wieland Schmied; title: group ZERO  -- Otto Piene; title: chronology  -- Thekla Zell; title: the new dynamic structure  -- Heinz Mack; title: the sahara project  -- Heinz Mack; title: resting restlessness  -- Heinz Mack; title: opening speech for the fontana ehibition  -- Otto Piene; title: paths to paradise  -- Otto Piene; title: on the purity of light  -- Otto Piene; title: untitled  -- Günther Uecker; title: on white  -- Günther Uecker; title: whiteness  -- Günther Uecker; title: my position in the battle between line and color  -- Yves Klein; title: free dimension  -- Piero Manzoni; title: themes --; title: interview with Heinz Mack  -- Hans Ulrich Obrist; title: interview ith otto piene  -- Hans Ulrich Obrist; title: interview with günther uecker  -- Hans Ulrich Obrist; title: ZERO today interview with daniel birnbaum  -- Mattijs Visser; title: works on display --; title: credits.