Sculpture "Edition No. 1" (1997), porcelain
Sculpture "Edition No. 1" (1997), porcelain
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limited, 20 copies | numbered | signed | porcelain | size 30 x 10 x 9 cm (h x w x d)
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Sculpture "Edition No. 1" (1997), porcelain
Ceramic sculpture made of porcelain, glazed white, 1997. Edition: 20 copies, numbered and signed by hand. Height: 30 cm. Width: 10 cm. Depth: 9 cm.
About Heinz Mack
Together with Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, Heinz Mack brought a breath of fresh air to the art scene through the artist group ZERO from the end of the 1950s onwards. He made light his central artistic theme, which he explored in countless sculptures, graphics, and pictures as well as in the design of public spaces during his more than 50-year career. Mack particularly appreciates the inner logic and discipline of graphic art and describes it as the "language of his hand".
Mack, born in 1931, is a multiple documenta participant, represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale and is a recipient of the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. His works are represented in well over 100 collections, and renowned art houses worldwide regularly show his work.
The initial spark for Mack's exploration of light is a coincidence. He stepped on a piece of metal foil lying on a carpet. The step left behind a pattern that swayed dynamically in the light. Mack transformed light into his medium, experimenting with it in spatial installations, objects, sculptures, and on canvases. He places legendary light installations in the Sahara and thus became a pioneer of Land Art. Through his experiments, he anticipated what artists like Olafur Eliasson successfully do today. With scientific curiosity, he uses reflections and materials such as metal mesh or aluminium. "I love colour as a medium in which light is expressed. It's so beautiful that we live in a colourful world" (Heinz Mack).
The Italian avant-garde artist Lucio Fontana said in 1964 about the work of Heinz Mack: "The quality of light to be pure continuity is the problem Heinz Mack develops in his work. It is his intention to simplify the visible. He reduces it to what constitutes its essence. His goal is to represent not the optical-visual shape within a merely aesthetic order, but the unmediated idea, which has the merit of being pure information."
Contemporary art created from objects that are not normally considered materials from which art is made.
Object art was a means of expression of Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, and in the course of their development to the present day had spawned various presentation techniques.
Ceramic product made of kaolin, quartz and feldspar.
Porcelain is formed by turning or pressing and figurative objects are cast. Complex objects have to be cast in separated steps and sections and then "assembled". After the moulding, the pieces are dried and "annealed" at about 900 °C. Next, the glaze will be applied and fired at temperatures between 1,240 °C and 1,445 °C. In renowned manufactures, the porcelain is painted by hand whereby each colour has to be fired individually and in compliance with narrow temperature tolerances.
Porcelain was invented in China and became widespread in Europe from the 16th century onwards. The first European porcelain factory was founded in Meissen, Germany in 1710.
Other famous European porcelain factories include Fürstenberg, Höchst, Schwarzburger Werkstätten, Lladró, Nymphenburg, KPM, Augarten, Sèvres, Limoges, Royal Copenhagen, Worcester. Individual factories label their products with their personal porcelain stamps so that for the collecter it is easy to identify their origin.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.