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Sofie Van den Bussche
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In 1958, German artists Heinz Mack and Otto Piene founded the ZERO group in Düsseldorf, a European version of Colorfield Painting. However, ZERO artists mostly worked in monochrome, often in white. They strived for a new harmony in the relationship between man and nature, and avoided individual tracks in their art. The name Zero was reminiscent of the countdown before launching a rocket.The ZERO group had many international contacts, amongst others with Italian Lucio Fontana, Frenchman Yves Klein and Swiss Jean Tinguely, as well as with Belgian artists Pol Bury, Walter Leblanc, Jef Verheyen and Paul Van Hoeydonck. ZERO is characterized by light, movement and monochrome painting. In order to work with light and shade, the artists often used relief in their work, blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture.
The exhibition G58 & ZERO shows the influential art collectives G58 and De Nieuwe Vlaamse School, which had strong connections with the international ZERO movement. Guest curator Sofie Van Den Bussche shows the important role Antwerp artists played on the international arts scene during the post-war years.… (meer)