293 - Heinz Mack, from: “The Song of Solomon”, signed colour silkscreen print from 1993, framed

Heinz Mack, from: “The Song of Solomon”, signed colour silkscreen print from 1993, framed Heinz Mack, born 1931 in Lollar, German sculptor and painter and co-founder of the internationally influential ZERO group, here: Like the wind he sweeps down from the mountains, like a dance he leaps over the hills, Sheet V from: “The Song of Solomon”, colour silkscreen print, 67 x 92.5 cm, signed, dated (19)93, numbered 47/75, published by Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach, WVZ 175 V, framed under glass About the artist: From 1950, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he shared a studio with Otto Piene from 1955. On 11 April 1957, the two artists organised the ‘1st Evening Exhibition’ in these studio spaces. This series of events ultimately gave rise to the ZERO group. The term ‘ZERO’ was coined as early as the autumn of 1957; however, the 7th Evening Exhibition, held on 24 April 1958, which was entitled ‘Das rote Bild’ (‘The Red Picture’) and at which the first number of the magazine ZERO was also published. Later that same year, Mack took part in documenta II. Günther Uecker joined the group in 1961 as its third core member. In 1964, Mack, together with Piene and Uecker, took part in documenta III in Kassel, where they exhibited the *Lichtraum* (*Hommage à Fontana*), which is now in the collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. In 1970, Heinz Mack represented Germany at the Venice Biennale. In the same year, he was appointed to a teaching post in Osaka (Japan) and became a full member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, to which he belonged until 1992. In 1977, the artist took part in the documenta in Kassel once again.