About the work
Heinz Mack still surprises us repeatedly, even at an advanced age, with opulent paintings that beguile the eye and delight the soul. The sumptuous colours – radiant and pure, intense and brilliant – are unfurled in simple, non-representational forms on the canvas and develop their very own autonomous creative power.
In the Mediterranean Flower Fields, numerous coloured fields join to form a fish bone-like pattern, while colour, rhythm and brushwork merge into a dynamic, loosely structured overall picture, a harmonious polychromy. Certainly playing a key role for the pulsing paintings, flooded with light, like this one, is the fact that the artist has maintained a studio under the Mediterranean sun on Ibiza for many years.
“I can’t imagine a world without colours”, Heinz Mack said in an interview in 2021 on the occasion of his 90th birthday. “Colour plays an important role for me. Light is the theme of my life.”
Text authored and provided by Dr. Doris Hansmann, Art historian
Studies of art history, theater, film and television, English and Romance Languages at the University of Cologne, doctorated in 1994. Research assistant at the Art Museum Düsseldorf. Lecturer and project manager at Wienand Verlag, Cologne. Freelance work as an author, editor and book producer for publishers and museums in Germany and abroad. From 2011 chief editor at Wienand Verlag, from 2019 to 2021 senior editor at DCV, Dr. Cantz’sche Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin. Numerous publications on the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
