Heinz Mack *
(born in Lollar, Hessen in 1931)
Terra Digitalis, before 1960, relief aluminum plate mounted on panel, 48 x 54 cm
Provenance:
Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia - acquired directly from the artist
Literature:
Dieter Honisch, Mack - Skulpturen 1953 – 1986, Dusseldorf, Wien, 1986, p. 210, no. 223 with ill., Ouevre-no. 246
"An unexpected opportunity to visualize aesthetic
motion coincidentally occurred when I stepped onto a thin metal foil lying on a sisal carpet.
When I picked up the foil the light was vibrating. Since the carpet was factory-made, the impression remained mechanic and decorative; the motion of the reflected light was entirely dull and unimportant.
My metal reliefs, I prefer calling them light reliefs, formed by just the pressure from my fingers, need light instead of colors to come alive. Owed to the mirror-like polish a slight relief is enough to shake the the light's calmness and to make it vibrate.
The potential beauty of these structures makes for a pure
expression of the beauty of light."
Ulrike Schmidt: Die Bedeutung der Reliefform im Werk von Heinz Mack,
in Robert Fleck (Ed.), Heinz Mack – Reliefs, Munich 2015, S. 10ff.
Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747
petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de
23.05.2024 - 18:00
- Realized price: **
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EUR 130,000.-
- Estimate:
-
EUR 50,000.- to EUR 70,000.-
Heinz Mack *
(born in Lollar, Hessen in 1931)
Terra Digitalis, before 1960, relief aluminum plate mounted on panel, 48 x 54 cm
Provenance:
Private Collection North Rhine-Westphalia - acquired directly from the artist
Literature:
Dieter Honisch, Mack - Skulpturen 1953 – 1986, Dusseldorf, Wien, 1986, p. 210, no. 223 with ill., Ouevre-no. 246
"An unexpected opportunity to visualize aesthetic
motion coincidentally occurred when I stepped onto a thin metal foil lying on a sisal carpet.
When I picked up the foil the light was vibrating. Since the carpet was factory-made, the impression remained mechanic and decorative; the motion of the reflected light was entirely dull and unimportant.
My metal reliefs, I prefer calling them light reliefs, formed by just the pressure from my fingers, need light instead of colors to come alive. Owed to the mirror-like polish a slight relief is enough to shake the the light's calmness and to make it vibrate.
The potential beauty of these structures makes for a pure
expression of the beauty of light."
Ulrike Schmidt: Die Bedeutung der Reliefform im Werk von Heinz Mack,
in Robert Fleck (Ed.), Heinz Mack – Reliefs, Munich 2015, S. 10ff.
Specialist: Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
Dr. Petra Maria Schäpers
+49 211 2107747
petra.schaepers@dorotheum.de
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| Auction: | Contemporary Art I |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction with Live Bidding |
| Date: | 23.05.2024 - 18:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 11.05. - 23.05.2024 |
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