S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum is hosting the leading artist of German modernism, Heinz Mack, with an exhibition showcasing the artist’s long and prolific career with over a hundred works. The exhibition titled “MACK. Just Light and Colour”, made possible with the main sponsorship of Tahincioğlu, focuses on the significant oeuvre of German artist Heinz Mack, who is notably among the founders of the mid-20th century avant-garde art network, the ZERO movement. The exhibition, encompassing the artist’s formative earlier works that informed the revolutionary philosophy of the ZERO movement, brings together paintings, monumental sculptures and kinetic works produced throughout the artist’s long career.
the pioneering artist of German modernism, Heinz Mack investigates ways to attain future universal harmony through works that aim to transform and change human perception and emotions, just as they shaped the building blocks of the international art group ZERO, which the artist co-founded in 1957. The all-encompassing, defining and transforming power of light is at the heart of a body of work that he has created with unparalleled discipline and dedication over the years. Today, Heinz Mack is at the peak of a prolific artistic career in which he has produced works ranging from the revolutionary echoes of the ZERO movement that set out to change the world, to monumental works that straddle continents, and from kinetic sculptures to canvases that embrace all the colours discernible by the human eye.
Realized under the curatorship of S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum Director Dr. Nazan Ölçer and art historian and former Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sir Norman Rosenthal, the exhibition notably marks the 85th birthday and 60th year of Heinz Mack’s career with a series of exhibitions taking place in the Far East, Europe and Turkey.
Heinz Mack’s first solo exhibition in Istanbul, where the civilisations of East and West have bequeathed a priceless heritage over thousands of years, will be accompanied by a rich program of conferences, education programs, workshops, as well as a comprehensive exhibition catalogue suitable for both scholars and the general public. With the invaluable support of Tahincioğlu, “MACK. Just Light and Colour” is meeting art enthusiasts at the S.U. Sakıp Sabancı Museum galleries until 17 July.
