Heinz Mack - Licht im Garten (Light in Garden), 2012
Acrylic on canvas
79 x 100 cm / framed 90 x 111 cm
31 x 39 inch / framed 35 x 43 inch
signed, dated top left, dated: “mack 12”
signed, dated, titled on the back:
“mack 12” “Licht im Garten”
– with handmade craftsman's frame –
N 9003
Heinz Mack - Licht im Garten (Light in Garden), 2012
Acrylic on canvas
79 x 100 cm / framed 90 x 111 cm
31 x 39 inch / framed 35 x 43 inch
signed, dated top left, dated: “mack 12”
signed, dated, titled on the back:
“mack 12” “Licht im Garten”
– with handmade craftsman's frame –
N 9003
About the work
We see rhythmic fields, a gliding and leaping between graduated shades of blue. Nothing representational is depicted, instead something more like memories of that seen.Thus, for example, we recognise pasture structures, cacti, grass in his garden. Heinz Mack is very much aware that parallels with forms in nature can now and then be found in his work. He traces this back to his admiration and his deep interest in nature, which he does not wish to deny. Nature is not my enemy”, the artist believes.Many of his works are at home in the form and colour worlds of nature and often refer to his environment on Ibiza. Heinz Mack lives and works on Ibiza some of the time. It is the Mediterranean light of Ibiza that makes everything radiate.
Text authored and provided by Dr. Marion Agthe, Art Historian