Event as part of the Art:walk Festival
Licht im Blick presents the little-known photographic work of Heinz Mack for the first time. On the occasion of his 95th birthday, the ZERO foundation presents photographs and light images that visualise Mack's lifelong exploration of structure and light.
In cooperation with the Mack Foundation, the ZERO foundation is dedicating an exhibition to the artist that focuses on a hitherto little-known aspect of his work: photography. Heinz Mack had already been taking photographs since his youth and in the 1940s he captured structures and surfaces in his rural surroundings that fascinated him. These early photographs demonstrate a pronounced interest in aesthetic phenomena, which is later reflected in his characteristic artistic style. The exhibition combines photographs with early drawings and pastels from the ZERO foundation's collection, making the artist's structural vision comprehensible. Large-format C-print slide works and black and white photo collages refer thematically to Mack's monumental and utopian Sahara project with sand reliefs, mirrors, wings and light steles. Particularly impressive are the abstract light pictures that emerged from experiments with the light of the desert. They show Mack's ongoing search not only to depict light, but to make it visible as an artistic event. (Source: Art:walk Festival)
