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Otto Piene, Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack

The ZERO Foundation was established in December 2008 with support of Düsseldorf-based ZERO artists, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, and Museum Kunst Palast. It is funded by the state capital, Düsseldorf. The artists donated works as well as their archives from the ZERO period comprising photographs, correspondence, invitation cards, newspaper clippings and other documents.

Programme

The initiative behind the new foundation was taken by Tijs Visser, backed by Hans-Georg Lohe, Düsseldorf’s local government officer for culture. Co-operations with international archives (Yves Klein and Piero Manzoni Foundation), museums (Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam) and institutions (AFORK and MIT) are just some of the diverse internationally oriented activities of the ZERO Foundation. Through cooperative exhibitions, loans and permanent placement of work in museums internationally, the Foundation will ensure that the many facets of ZERO are both widely accessible and properly cared for. Ongoing preservation and restoration of works in the Foundation’s care complement these efforts. On a research level, the material contained in the artists’ archives will be examined, registered and classified according to thematic categories. In establising an archive and collection the Foundation paved the way for new ZERO scholarship and curatorial innovation as well as greater public understanding of ZERO’s profound significance. The Foundation oversight of thoroughly researched, extensively illustrated catalogues raisonné of ZERO’s international artistic output expands the possibilities for scholarship even further[1]. 


Organisation

Board: Friderike Bagel, Daniel Birnbaum, Claus Gielisch, Carl Grouwet, Beat Wismer. Executive Board: Dirk Elbers (Chairman), Otto Piene and Heinz Mack (Vice-chairman), Friedrich Conzen, Veronika Dübgen, Alexander Fils, Anneliese Lenz, Hans-Georg Lohe, Christian Megert, Toni Mörger, Cornelia Mohrs, Robert Rademacher, Helmut Rattenhuber, Hubertus Schoeller, Günther uecker, Axel Vervoordt. Director: Tijs Visser. Staff: Heike van den Valenty, Tiziana Caianiello, Hilke Hendriksen.

Artists

Following the ZERO exhibition held in 2006 at the Museum Kunst Palast, the following artists were included as ZERO artists: Arman, Armando, Bernard Aubertin, Hermann Bartels, Pol Bury, Enrico Castellani, Giani Colombo, Dada Maino, Piero Dorazion, Lucio Fontana, Hermann Goepfert, Gerard von Graevenitz, Gotthard Graubner, Hans Haacke, Jan Henderikse, Oskar Holweck, Akira Kanayama, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Walter Leblanc, Francesco Lo Savio, Adolf Luther, Heinz Mack, Piero Manzoni, Almir Mavignier, Christian Megert, Sadamasa Motonaga, Saburo Murakami, Henk Peeters, Otto Piene, Uli Pohl, Hans Salentin, Jan Schoonhoven, Kazuo Shiraga, Shozo Shimamoto, Jesus Rafael Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Atsuko Tanaka, Jean Tinguely, Günther Uecker, Jef Verheyen, Nanda Vigo, herman de vries, Tsuruko Yamazaki, Jiro Yoshihara, Michio Yoshihara[2]. Related artists: Marc Adrian, Getulio Alviani, Davide Boriani, Kilian Breier, Kuno Gonschior, Manfred Kage, Doris Kleint, Ira Moldow, Arnoldo Pomodoro, Arnulf Rainer, George Rickey, Dieter Roth, Adolf Zillmann, Paul van Hoeydonck.

Activities

  • In the night from the 4th to the 5th October 2008, the foundation initiated a Sky Event by Otto Piene as part of NUIT BLANCHE. Staged on Place de Catalogne – not far from Gare Montparnasse –, Piene’s sky sculptures captivated thousands of spectators as they rose up into the Parisian night sky [3].
  • November 6, 2008, the exhibition ZERO in New York opened at the gallery Sperone Westwater with a presentation of some 50 works by 21 artists. The concentrated cross-section of works from the ZERO era, spanning from 1958 to 1966, took on museum proportions with its juxtapositions, thematic ensembles and a light room[4].

Publications

  • ZERO in NY, exhibition catalog edited by Mattijs Visser, published by the ZERO foundation and Sperone Westwater, New York/Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-90-76979-73-1
  • Renate Buschmann, Stephan von Wiese: Fotos schreiben Kunstgeschichte. DuMont, Köln 2007, ISBN 978-3-8321-9058-3.
  • Heiner Stachelhaus: Zero. Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker. Econ, Düsseldorf 1993, ISBN 978-3-430-18683-4
  • Anette Kuhn: ZERO. Eine Avantgarde der sechziger Jahre. Propyläen, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-549-06694-2
  • Museum Kunst Palast: ZERO – Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre. With essay from Bazon Brock, Tiziana Caianiello, Heinz-Norbert Jocks, Catherine Millet, Lóránd Hegyi, Valerie L. Hillings, Heike van den Valentyn, Atsuo Yamamoto, Mattijs Visser. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 978-3-7757-1747-2.
  • Klaus Schrenk: Aufbrüche. Manifeste, Manifestationen. Positionen in der bildenden Kunst zu Beginn der 60er Jahre in Berlin, Düsseldorf und München. DuMont, Köln 1984

References

  1. ^ "ZERO foundation official Website".
  2. ^ Taken from Museum Kunst Palast: ZERO – Internationale Künstler-Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre
  3. ^ "Floatables d'Otto Piene". ARTENTION. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
  4. ^ "ZERO, International Movement Surveyed in New York Exhibition". Berkshirefinearts. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
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