Heinz Mack is one of Germany’s most important contemporary artists. As co-founder of the ZERO movement, he has long been deeply rooted in the European avant-garde, and his œuvre is an essential part of recent art history. This book presents the sculptural reliefs that are central to his artistic practice. Mack coined the term “light-relief” to describe his approach, a term that highlights the interplay between light and surface. With nearly three hundred color images, the book is the first to focus on Mack’s reliefs, presenting works from 1952 to the present, including reliefs created in stone, wood, and even sand.
Table of Contents
Robert Fleck:
Preface
Ulrike Schmitt:
The Meaning of the Relief in the Oeuvre of Heinz Mack
Uwe Fleckner:
Plastically Shaped Time—Heinz Mack’s Rotor Reliefs and Kinetics in Art
Fritz Jacobi:
The Planner Space as Energy Field—About Heinz Mack’s Relief Structures
Eugen Blume:
The Immanence of Transcendence—Heinz Mack’s Reliefs
Claus—Peter Haase:
Heinz Mack and the Orient—A Discussion about Light and Refraction
Heniz Mack
White Reliefs
Black Reliefs
Silver Reliefs
Light Reliefs
Rotors
Golden and Sand Reliefs
Grid Reliefs
Preface
Ulrike Schmitt:
The Meaning of the Relief in the Oeuvre of Heinz Mack
Uwe Fleckner:
Plastically Shaped Time—Heinz Mack’s Rotor Reliefs and Kinetics in Art
Fritz Jacobi:
The Planner Space as Energy Field—About Heinz Mack’s Relief Structures
Eugen Blume:
The Immanence of Transcendence—Heinz Mack’s Reliefs
Claus—Peter Haase:
Heinz Mack and the Orient—A Discussion about Light and Refraction
Heniz Mack
White Reliefs
Black Reliefs
Silver Reliefs
Light Reliefs
Rotors
Golden and Sand Reliefs
Grid Reliefs