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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Heinz Mack & Goethe
| Editor | Barbara Steingießer |
| Publisher | Hatje Cantz |
| Year | 2018 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | German, English |
| ISBN | 978-3-7757-4407-2 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Weight | 3295 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Eckhard Bendin, Gernot Böhme, Hartmut Böhme et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf |
| Article ID | art-49650 |
Never-before-seen juxtaposition: what connects Goehte's color theory with the Light Art by ZERO artist Heinz Mack?
“Colors are the deeds … of light.” This quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Theory of Colors supplies the title for a special, large exhibition at the Goethe Museum in Dusseldorf, as well as for the companion catalogue. The show juxtaposes Goethe’s (1749–1832) world of ideas and the work by the Light artist and co-founder of the ZERO group Heinz Mack (*1931, Lollar, Germany). Yet, what is it that connects the classical author to the avant-garde artist?
Surprising parallels emerge, manifesting in the universality of the two artists’ interests and their orientation toward the future. Mack’s enthusiasm for the structures of organic and inorganic life encounters Goethe’s ideas on morphology, the theory of the formation and transmutation of organic bodies. And paintings inspired by the Far East are affirmed by Goethe’s insight, “The Orient and the Occident can no longer be separated.” Never-before- exhibited works by Mack meet rare Goethe exponents from the Dusseldorf museum, as well as loans from Weimar, Dresden, and Vienna.
