ZERO VOL. 3
DYNAMO - magazine
Eigenverlag ZERO,
Düsseldorf - 1961 - DE/EN/FR
Third and
final volume of the periodical ‘ZERO’.
Original wrappers - Softcover - 20 x 21 - ca. 150 pages. Pages unnumbered, throughout
illustrated in B&W.
Contributions:
illustrations and texts in German, English and French by a.o. Lucio Fontana,
Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Pol Bury, Arman, Piero
Manzoni & Daniel Spoerri.
Very rare
complete issue still containing the match of Daniel Spoerri, the sunflower seed
of Jean Tinguely, the half-burned and the partly torn pages of Yves Klein. Copy sold at the opening night of a ZERO exhibition at Galerie A in Arnhem (Netherlands) in 1961.
In very
fine condition, with some light signs of use. 2 old librabry stickers on the front cover - Inlaid sheet of opening of first exhibition in Arnhem (The Netherlands)..
Trefwoorden: Avant garde; Zero; Lucio Fontana; Yves Klein; Jean Tinguely; Otto Piene; Heinz Mack; Pol Bury, Arman; Piero Manzoni & Daniel Spoerri.
Ref. W1422
ZERO was an artist group founded in the
late 1950s in Düsseldorf by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene. Piene described it as "a zone
of silence and of pure possibilities for a new beginning". In
1961 Günther
Uecker joined
the initial founders. ZERO became an international movement, with artists from
Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Switzerland, and Italy.
Many of the
ZERO artists are better known for their affiliations with other movements,
including Nouveau
Réalisme, Arte Povera, Minimalism, Op Art, Land Art, and Kinetic Art.
The 3 ZERO publications
(1958-1961) addressed the themes of The Red Picture (Das rote Bild), VIBRATION,
and DYNAMO, respectively.
Guggenheim
curator Valerie Hillings: ZERO magazine became quite influential for
many other magazines that happened. They were also really trying to bring a lot
of people together at different moments. In Milan, Piero Manzoni and Enrico
Castellani found the Galleria Azimut and the journal Azimuth. And through
those two mechanisms they give a platform for showing and also a platform for
speaking about art. The third and final issue of ZERO was several
years in the making. Its theme was DYNAMO. And it was when the network
starts to kind of come together. There are various ways in which you can see
the commonality and various ways in which you see a big divergence. You know,
you have Manzoni's eggs showing up, and you're thinking, "How is that related
to the Smoke Painting of Otto Piene?"
