Motion in Vision / Vision in Motion
Zero Group
Antwerp. Hessenhuis Anvers. 1959
The very early and rare document on the Zero Group and New Realism together with the invitation to the vernissage.
This legendary exhibition was held at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, March 21 - May 3, 1959, the vernissage was on 21st March.
Contributing artists were Breer, Pol Bury, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Mari, Bruno Munari, Necker, Dieter Rot, Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Van Hoeydonck.
The catalogue contains 2 black and white reproductions of works by Mack; Otto Piene - text in German, French, English and 1 reproduction of the work 'reines Licht' (Pure Light); Pol Bury - two lacerated blank plates; Dieter Rot - 'Carré dépliable' (Unfoldable Square), originally published in No.2 of the Spoerri's artist magazine 'Material'; Emmett Williams - 'Progression', folding sheet, poem to be published in the forthcoming issue No.3 of 'Material'; P. Van Hoeydonck - a text by Maurits Blicke.Tinguely's contribution is the reproduction of his manifesto 'Für Statik' (For Statics) which he had dropped, just a week before the opening of this show (March 14th), from an airplane on Düsseldorf, Germany.
This legendary exhibition was held at the Hessenhuis, Antwerp, March 21 - May 3, 1959, the vernissage was on 21st March.
Contributing artists were Breer, Pol Bury, Yves Klein, Heinz Mack, Mari, Bruno Munari, Necker, Dieter Rot, Soto, Daniel Spoerri, Jean Tinguely, and Van Hoeydonck.
The catalogue contains 2 black and white reproductions of works by Mack; Otto Piene - text in German, French, English and 1 reproduction of the work 'reines Licht' (Pure Light); Pol Bury - two lacerated blank plates; Dieter Rot - 'Carré dépliable' (Unfoldable Square), originally published in No.2 of the Spoerri's artist magazine 'Material'; Emmett Williams - 'Progression', folding sheet, poem to be published in the forthcoming issue No.3 of 'Material'; P. Van Hoeydonck - a text by Maurits Blicke.Tinguely's contribution is the reproduction of his manifesto 'Für Statik' (For Statics) which he had dropped, just a week before the opening of this show (March 14th), from an airplane on Düsseldorf, Germany.
[19 leaves]. Square 4to. (212 x 214 mm). Introduction in Dutch and French by Marc Cammewaert, curator of the show. Text in French by Bathazar on Bury. Original stapled paper covers (half-sized front cover, showing the aluminated plate by Heinz Mack, as published). Slight creasing to cover, otherwise a very good copy.
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