HEINZ MACK – SPECTRUM
2016-05-23The current exhibition thus proposes reviving this essential reformer from the history of abstract art. With
enthusiastic support from the artist as well as major lenders and institutions, I have selected for this exhibition a substantial group of more than seventy works, including some very old ones that have never been shown in public. The presentation will exceptionally take place in all of the spaces of the Galerie Perrotin in Paris, and will link together works of various formats, natures, and periods in order to highlight the main lines, if not the “whole spectrum,” of a broad career.
From one period to another, Mack’s esthetic search has been a constant exploration—both systematic and sensual—of the
lumino-chromatic spectrum and its perceptive thresholds. This immaterial goal took on a philosophical dimension for
the artist, one that was paradoxically based on highly material means, and that used the raw simplicity of natural or
manufactured materials such as paint, metal, wood, stone, glass, plexiglass, or sand. The variability of the manual
production, both controlled and random, as well as this primitivist reduction, make Mack the source of an exceptional phenomenological unfolding. The viewer is prompted to feel the tangible experience of vision, and to consider time and
space as entirely separate mediums.
Opposite – Vibration im blau, 1959
Exhibition runs through till June 4th, 2016
Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin
76, rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
