Turn the sound up, and click on this Zero Group website for the retrospective of the 'Zero Group, Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950's and 1960's' at Guggenheim, New York..
"In 1957 Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded an artists’ group in Düsseldorf, West Germany, that they called Zero. They chose the name, as Piene explained in 1964, to indicate “a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as at the countdown when rockets take off."
"In 1957 Otto Piene and Heinz Mack founded an artists’ group in Düsseldorf, West Germany, that they called Zero. They chose the name, as Piene explained in 1964, to indicate “a zone of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning as at the countdown when rockets take off."
Lucio Fontana / Yves Klein / Heinz Mack / Piero Manzoni / Jesús Rafael Soto / Jean Tinguely / Günther Uecker
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