Heinz Mack. Sculptures

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In March 8 of this year, Heinz Mack, co-founder of the ZERO group, celebrated his 90th birthday. On this occasion, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden is honoring the great painter and sculptor with an exhibition devoted entirely to his sculptural work. The Skulpturenpark will present 50 sculptures from Heinz Mack, many of which have never been publicly shown, in its three exhibition spaces and its outdoor grounds. The exhibition will be one of the largest retrospectives ever of the artist's work.

For Heinz Mack, artworks, beyond the outward appearance they present to the eye of the beholder, possess an inner life, the characteristics of which are revealed in philosophy. He himself says: "The irritating, mysterious and wondrous seen in an artwork presents itself on the surface. Where else should it show itself? That which cannot be explained in art is hidden beneath that surface …." This is the sense in which Mack sees space, time and light as constituent factors in sculptural art. Beyond the purely phenomenological, however, light not only determines the material appearance of an artwork. For Mack it also guarantees its unique aura, reaching deep into the metaphysical, where light makes the "dematerialized" energy of his sculptures perceptible.