works, designed by Heinz Mack on experimental way, refer on essential elements of art: light, movement, space, color and form and are thus limitless to work out. In a world full of fixed images and structures, a way of working purely on the element to be worked on seems much more far-reaching.
Through the light the room has its sensuality, its atmosphere, its transparency. The light makes the room light..."
Heinz Mack - 1961
So how Pablo Picasso broke through the world of art through his Analytical Cubism and "destroyed" the prevailing understanding of the image, the desire to let art for stand on its own was ever greater. it was, how Yves Klein called it , about "overcoming the problematic of art". Heinz Mack itself goes again and again on it, that it in the art not further around paintings or representations of events or objects should go - how in the entire art history before - but around a specific field of work from extension and energy.
Mack follows the principle of "taking one element and then putting it into a structure of rhythm and repetition. These repetitions have all have their own sensibility and meaning for the overall structure of the work."
From color field to tension field
The laws of nature follow similar principles, for the day-night rhythm or the seasons also recur again and again. Life is guided by them. Heinz Mack is very concerned, how art and nature are directly connected with each other. As artist he strives to overcome traditional painting by working out the intensity of light and that of space. He creates it just this emerging energy on to concentrate a certain place and for example, to transform a color field into a field of tension.
Primavera - it is spring!
The depiction of spring with its colorful nature is a popular subject that can be found in every art era. Mack translates it into a small-format color chromaticism, so that it begins to vibrate with colorful energy.
In 1977, "Primavera 2", a vertically built color gradient, was brought from prismatic blue, green and yellow tones in pastel chalk on handmade paper. From cobalt blue to pleasing citrus yellow ignites Mack a fascinating range of colors. Of spring arises in the vegetation by the sunlight, that wakes up the flora after the long dark winter. At the same time, the color gradient not only how appears a color field refracted by light, but is almost reminiscent of Igor Stravinsky's musical masterpiece "Le sacre du printemps".
Primavera 2 by Heinz Mack will be featured in our upcoming Auction "Modern Art" offered for auction!
