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Group Zero
Movement founded in Düsseldorf in the late 1950s that sought a fresh start in art through light, motion, vibration and pure monochrome.
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ZERO began in 1957 when Heinz Mack and Otto Piene held one-evening exhibitions in their Düsseldorf studio, and in 1958 they published the first issue of a journal called ZERO. The name suggested a countdown and a clean start, away from the war and from the gestural painting then dominant in Europe. Günther Uecker joined them in 1961.
Their materials were light, space and movement. Piene staged light ballets, projecting beams through perforated stencils; Mack made shimmering reliefs of aluminium and dreamed of light installations in the desert; Uecker hammered nails into white-painted panels, so that shadows shift as the viewer moves. Around them grew an international network that exhibited together into the mid-1960s, including Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, the Dutch Nul group with Henk Peeters and Jan Henderikse, and the Swiss artist Christian Megert. The core group ended in 1966.
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