About the work
Together with his artist colleagues Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack developed a novel and revolutionary understanding of art as of the 1960s. After the “Zero Hour” tolled for them in art, they created a completely new language of art. Mack’s interest was and remains focused to the present day on the visualisation of light in colour and of colour in light. The series of Colour Chromaticisms makes this will to form especially clear. Mack works exclusively with spectral colours and arranges these on his image carriers in the most varied ways. The artist here layers two different shades of yellow as well as orange and red on top of one another on a narrow green basis, whereby the two bands of yellow have the same width, while the two red stripes of colour are somewhat narrower. The colour is applied very regularly here with blending. Only the red area at the top end of the work has a horizontal texture. However, the mere description of the pictorial composition is too little for the works of Heinz Mack. Besides their reduced language of form, all of his works also repeatedly demonstrate painterly aspects. Due to the powdery character of the pastels, the many hatchings, fringing and textures inherent to the painting, these works acquire an inimitable and hardly describable lyrical character.
Text authored and provided by Dr Andrea Fink, art historian
The art historian, curator and freelance publicist Andrea Fink studied art history, cultural studies and humanities, modern history and philosophy in Bochum and Vienna. Doctorate in 2007 on the work of the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. As a freelance curator and art consultant, her clients include, among others, the Kunstverein (art association) Ahlen, Kunstverein Soest, Wella Museum, Museum am Ostwall Dortmund, ThyssenKrupp AG, Kulturstiftung Ruhr, Osthaus Museum Hagen, Franz Haniel GmbH, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria.
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