Download or read book ZERO the International Art Movement written by Tys Visser and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zero was an artist group founded in Düsseldorf in 1958 by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. The word "zero," in Piene's words, meant "a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for new beginnings." ZERO, written in capital letters, stands for the international movement, with artists from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Switzerland, and France. The movement is usually interpreted as a reaction to Abstract Expressionism by claiming that art should not have color, emotion, and individual expression. The Zero group maintained numerous international contacts with the Italians Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, the French-man Yves Klein, and the Dutch artist Henk Peeters, who organized the first museum show for the ZERO artists. With an introduction by Tijs Visser, founding director of the ZERO foundation, and an essay by Daniel Birnbaum, former director Moderna Museet Stockholm, about the importance of the movement for artists today.
Download or read book ZERO written by Valerie Hillings and published by Guggenheim Museum. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s-60s, is the first large-scale historical survey in the United States dedicated to the German artist group Zero (1957-66). Founded by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, joined by Günther Uecker in 1961, the group expanded to include ZERO, an international network of like-minded artists who shared the group's aspiration to redefine art in the aftermath of World War II. Featuring more than thirty artists from nine countries, the catalogue explores the experimental practices developed by this extensive network of artists whose work anticipated aspects of Land art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art. The publication is organized around points of intersection, exchange, and collaboration that defined these artists' shared history. Among the themes explored are the establishment of new definitions of painting; the introduction of movement and light as both formal and idea-based aspects of art; the use of space as subject and material; the interrogation of the relationship between nature, technology, and humankind; and the production of live actions or demonstrations. At once a snapshot of a specific group and a portrait of a generation, this title celebrates the pioneering nature of both the art and the transnational vision advanced by the ZERO network.
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Download or read book Zero written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zero written by Heinz-Norbert Jocks and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First time exhibition in Brazil, featuring an overview focused in the topic of ZERO, the international avant-garde art movement of the late 1950's and the early 1960's that decisively changed the art of the postwar period and revolutionized art with vibrant bright structures and serial paintings. Organized by the Goethe-Institut within the framework of the event "Temporada Alemanha + Brasil 2013-2014", this itinerant exhibition presents pictorial arrangements arranged in series and vibrating light structures the best examples of the German group that is considered the pioneer of multimedia art. The exhibition curated by Heike van den Valentyn includes 24 works by artists from Europe and South America that reveal the modern modes of thought and work of ZERO. The focus is on the relationships between European artists, such as Yves Klein, Günther Uecker, Otto Piene and Hans Haacke, and their South American peers like Lucio Fontana, Almir Mavignier and Jesús Rafael Soto. The artistic dialogue of the exhibition "ZERO" is expanded with the works of Hércules Barsotti, Lygia Clark and Abraham Palatnik (all from Brazil) and Gego (Venezuela), as well as works by Gyula Kosice (Argentina).
Download or read book Art in Time written by The Editors of Phaidon Press and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art in Time is the first book to embed art movements within the larger context of politics and history. Global in scope and featuring an innovative present‐to‐past arrangement, the book’s accessible text looks back on the most significant art styles and movements, from the present day to antiquity. Pages of historical photographs, documents, newspaper headlines, and other ephemera evoke the times in which styles and movements arose. The book opens with The Information Age (Internet Art, Neo‐Expressionaism, Arte Povera) and closes with The Classical Age (Roman wall painting, Hellenistic Greek style), covering everything from Photorealism, Art Brut, Ukiyo‐e, and Byzantine style in between. An integrated timeline provides a linear thread throughout the book, while succinct, authoritative text illuminates key points.
Download or read book Painting Below Zero written by James Rosenquist and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors. A skilled traditional painter, he avoided the stencils and silk screens of Warhol and Lichtenstein. His vast canvases full of brilliant, surreally juxtaposed images would influence both many of his contemporaries and younger generations, as well as revolutionize twentieth-century painting. Ronsequist writes about growing up in a tight-knit community of Scandinavian farmers in North Dakota and Minnesota in the late 1930s and early 1940s; about his mother, who was not only an amateur painter but, along with his father, a passionate aviator; and about leaving that flat midwestern landscape in 1955 for New York, where he had won a scholarship to the Art Students League. George Grosz, Edwin Dickinson, and Robert Beverly Hale were among his teachers, but his early life was a struggle until he discovered sign painting. He describes days suspended on scaffolding high over Broadway, painting movie or theater billboards, and nights at the Cedar Tavern with Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, and the poet LeRoi Jones. His first major studio, on Coenties Slip, was in the thick of the new art world. Among his neighbors were Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Agnes Martin, and Jack Youngerman, and his mentors Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Rosenquist writes about his shows with the dealers Richard Bellamy, Ileana Sonnabend, and Leo Castelli, and about colorful collectors like Robert and Ethel Scull. We learn about the 1971 car crash that left his wife and son in a coma and his own life and work in shambles, his lobbying—along with Rauschenberg—for artists’ rights in Washington D.C., and how he got his work back on track. With his distinct voice, Roseqnuist writes about the ideas behind some of his major paintings, from the startling revelation that led to his first pop painting, Zone, to his masterpiece, F-III, a stunning critique of war and consumerism, to the cosmic reverie of Star Thief. This is James Rosenquist’s story in his own words—captivating and unexpected, a unique look inside the contemporary art world in the company of one of its most important painters.
Download or read book Witness to Phenomenon written by Joseph D. Ketner II and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witness of Phenomenon articulates a fresh examination of the German Group Zero-Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and G�nter Uecker-and other new tendency artists, who rejected painting and introduced new art media in postwar Europe. Group ZERO evolved into a network across Europe- Amsterdam, Milan, Paris, and Zagreb. This pan-European affiliation of artists generated a continuous stream of innovative artistic statements through the 1960s, incorporating non-traditional materials and new technologies to create kinetic art, light installations, performances, immersive multimedia installations, monumental land art, and the communication media of video and television. They transformed the visual arts from the inanimate objet d'art to a sensory experience by adopting the ascendant philosophy of Phenomenology as their conceptual foundation. Drawing from a decade of research on unpublished archives of the artists and critics of this period, this publication positions Group ZERO as a catalytic art moment in the transition from modern to contemporary art.
Download or read book Zero 1958 1968 written by Marco Meneguzzo and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art Centre presents a major exhibition showcasing the German movement, Zero Group, and the origins of kinetic art in Italy, opening on May 29th. The selection of works on display covers the period going from the late Fifties to the mid-Sixties. The curators, Marco Meneguzzo and Stephan von Wiese, have focused especially on the founders of Zero Group: Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker. The same years saw the beginning, in Italy, of a series of related artistic movements - such as Azimuth and the Gruppo T in Milan, or the Gruppo N in Padua - which will be represented in the show through a wide anthology of works. The retrospective aims to provide a portrait of the moment where the paths of the three German artists met and joined, originating one of the most interesting artistic trends to see the light during the second half of the Twentieth century. At the same time, the show as a whole intends to provide an update on the artistic results the members of the group independently achieved after their separation in 1966. To this purpose, each of the three artists will display a work specifically produced for the Papesse show. Moreover, the exhibition also showcases the works of those Italian artistic movements that, while collaborating with the Zero Group in Europe during the Sixties, developed their own, autonomous artistic narratives. The exhibition takes its first steps from the origins of the Zero Group in Germany, acknowledging the explicit references of those early works to artists such as Manzoni, Klein and Fontana; it then moves on to Italy, highlighting the close affinity of the German group with the dynamics of Italian artists of the early Sixties, and the motivations behind kinetic art and programmed art."--Kunstaspekte website.
Download or read book The Ground Zero of the Arts written by Davide Dal Sasso and published by Brill Research Perspectives in. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication proposes to investigate the arts from the inside, namely, their common foundations: the rules for artistic creation, the processes that involve artists in their activities, the forms that they can achieve. An inquiry about art-making and artistic practices.
Download or read book Keep It Moving written by Rachel Rivenc and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kinetic art not only includes movement but often depends on it to produce an intended effect and therefore fully realize its nature as art. It can take a multiplicity of forms and include a wide range of motion, from motorized and electrically driven movement to motion as the result of wind, light, or other sources of energy. Kinetic art emerged throughout the twentieth century and had its major developments in the 1950s and 1960s. Professionals responsible for conserving contemporary art are in the midst of rethinking the concept of authenticity and solving the dichotomy often felt between original materials and functionality of the work of art. The contrast is especially acute with kinetic art when a compromise between the two often seems impossible. Also to be considered are issues of technological obsolescence and the fact that an artist’s chosen technology often carries with it strong sociological and historical information and meanings.
Download or read book The Artist as Curator written by Tiziana Caianiello and published by Asamer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This massive publication, initiated by the ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf, presents the result of several years of collaboration by an international group of scholars composed of art historians from Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The texts are based on extensive research in various archives in Europe and the United States that has brought to light unpublished material. They reflect the cooperation of the ZERO foundation with other institutions, foundations and private archives. Formed at the beginning of the 1960s, the ZERO group was an international network of like-minded artists from Europe, Japan and North and South America that included among its ranks such artists as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Jan Schoonhoven and Jesús Rafael Soto.
Download or read book Zero to Infinity written by Richard Flood and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, the Walker Art Center and the Tate Modern have undertaken an ambitious project - to represent an important yet seldom seen period in Italian modern art. As the U. S. tour sponsor of Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, the Italian Trade Commission is proud to share the Walker Art Center's enthusiasm in illustrating the evolution of artistic expression in Italy as reflected in all aspects of Italian life.
Download or read book Many Valued Aesthetics written by Hauke Ohls and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: »Yes, No, Perhaps« are the most written words in Mary Bauermeister's artworks. Together they stand for the concept of many-valued aesthetics in the German artist's oeuvre - an aesthetic that Bauermeister developed using many-valued logic. Hauke Ohls brings the artist's central groups of works in context with each other as well as with the neo-avant-garde of the post-war period in Europe and the USA. He shows that the development of Bauermeister's art may appear disparate, but her canvas and relief works, drawings and writing pictures, lens boxes and stone pictures are characterized by a reciprocal relationship of combinations and interconnections. Through the ubiquitous use of meta-references, the entire oeuvre ultimately appears as an interconnected assemblage.
Download or read book Doug Wheeler written by Doug Wheeler and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over five decades, Doug Wheeler has pioneered the art of light and space. His work powerfully explores the way we perceive “empty” space—the way light can affect our perception and make emptiness feel full and dense. From his early experiences flying across the desert with his father, a doctor in Globe, Arizona, Wheeler developed a passion for the intensity and stillness of vast expanses, seeing in them a whole new set of possibilities for visual art. Although Wheeler began his career as a painter, his wall-mounted artworks soon began incorporating light as a medium and quickly gave way to an unprecedented art-historical breakthrough: his construction of an absolute light environment, crafted in his studio in 1967. Since that unparalleled moment, Wheeler’s work has been exhibited widely all over the world; in the past decade, with numerous major gallery and museum installations, his reputation as the definitive light and space artist has been solidified. This volume, featuring new scholarship by renowned art historian Germano Celant, traces the entire course of Wheeler’s career to date, from his first mature paintings to his immersive installations. Writing on Wheeler’s intense and direct engagement with the absoluteness in the optical fields he creates, Celant provides a detailed account for Wheeler’s development as one of the most original and influential artists of his generation. Wheeler’s work not only changes how we encounter reality after we see it, but also how we envision what is possible more broadly in visual art.
Download or read book Silence and Beauty written by Makoto Fujimura and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned artist Makoto Fujimura reflects on Shusaku Endo's novel Silence and grapples with the nature of art, pain and culture. Showing that light is yet present in darkness, he uncovers deep layers of meaning in Japanese history and finds connections to how faith is lived in contexts of trauma.
Download or read book Opening the Archive The ABCs of ZERO written by Heinz Mack and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2024-04-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
