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Zero Group

Otto Piene

While works by German-born Otto Piene (1928–2014), a pioneer of process art, have been on view lately in gallery and museum shows devoted to the Zero group, the short-lived avant-garde movement he cof…

Heinz Mack

The scorching, mutilating and jerry-rigging that characterizes the art of Zero often makes the artists appear more like mad scientists than postwar abstractionists. Invention and experimentation, ofte…

Antoni Tàpies, 1923-2012

One of the giants of the postwar European avant-garde, Antoni Tàpies died at his home in Barcelona on Feb. 6, after a long illness. He was 88. Best known for his richly textured paintings in a muted p…

More Than ZERO Heinz Mack

Following its own 2008 group survey, New York gallery Sperone Westwater continues to propose reevaluation of the post-war German group ZERO with its latest show, a solo presentation of artist Heinz <ins datetime="2011-01-20T15:03"…

Light Years Ahead

"Otto Piene: Light Ballet and Fire Paintings, 1960–1967," currently on view at Sperone Westwater in New York, offers rare witness to Otto Piene's philsophical inquiries into technology's potential to…

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