Zero

de Dirk Pörschmann, Margriet Schavemaker, Taylor, Jennifer (Translator)

Fire, light, movement, space, demonstrations and performances. The Stedelijk proudly presents an historic survey of the innovative avant-garde group ZERO. With work by herman de vries, Armando, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven, Jan Henderikse, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Yayoi Kusama and others. Published to accompany this years exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, here is the most comprehensive publication on the ZERO movement, which thrived from 1958 to 1966. It explores the work of the founders Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, alongside international artists who were close to ZERO such as Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana, and such lesser-known artists as Hermann Goepfert, Oskar Holweck and Hans Salentin.--Publisher.