Relief Lumineux (Lichtrelief)

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Heinz Mack (b. 1931)
Relief Lumineux (Lichtrelief)
signed, titled, inscribed and dated '"Relief Lumineux" Lichtrelief 1959 MACK Düsseldorf' (on the reverse)
aluminium relief on plywood in artist's aluminium frame
43 x 43 x 7.5 cm.
Executed in 1959

Provenance

Galleria Il Grifo, Turin.
Anon. sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, 30 November 2006, lot 752.

Exhibited

Turin, 1° Salone, i 4 Soli, Internazionale di Pittura 1959, 1959.

Special Notice

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Lot Essay

`The idea of restriction is perceptible in the shapes I prefer. Point, line and surface, and their spatial relatives – disc, ball, grid, stele, cube, pyramid and wedge – are “dominant” basis shapes to me. My preference for a simple shape does not coincide with a puritan profession of faith; it is my interest in the monumental shape which prefers these simple shapes.’
(Heinz Mack quoted in: D. Honisch, Mack. Sculptures 1953-1986, Dusseldorf 1987, p. 198).

Relief Lumineux (Lichtrelief)

Lot Essay

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