9783863356972

3863356977

Exhibition catalog.

Published on the occasion of the exhibitions "ZERO, the international art movement of the 50s and 60s" held at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, March 21 - June 8, 2015; "Zero, let us explore the stars" held at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, July 4 - November 8, 2015.

Copyright Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and ZERO Foundation, Düsseldorf.

"Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam cat. no. 918."--Colophon.

Translated from the Dutch, French, German, and Italian.

Fire, light, movement, space, demonstrations and performances. The Stedelijk proudly presents an historic survey of the innovative avant-garde group ZERO. With work by herman de vries, Armando, Henk Peeters, Jan Schoonhoven, Jan Henderikse, Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Yayoi Kusama and others.

"Published to accompany this years exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, here is the most comprehensive publication on the ZERO movement, which thrived from 1958 to 1966. It explores the work of the founders Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, alongside international artists who were close to ZERO such as Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana, and such lesser-known artists as Hermann Goepfert, Oskar Holweck and Hans Salentin."-- Publisher's desciption.

New encounter with a forgotten avant-garde / Dirk Pörschmann, Margriet Schavemaker

The ZERO traveling circus: documentation of exhibitions, actions, publications 1958-1966 / Thekla Zell

"ZERO's going round the world!!": birth and growth of a transnational artists' network / Antoon Melissen

The image redefined: poetics of zeroing in the European neo-avant-garde / Francesca Pola

Manifesto to manifestation: publications of the ZERO avant-garde / Johan Pas

Performing ZERO / Margriet Schavemaker

Let us explore the stars: utopia ZERO / Dirk Pörschmann

ZERO today: history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme / Mattijs Visser in an interview with Daniel Birnbaum

The development of the Group "Zero" / Otto Piene

Zone ZERO: artists, works, photos, texts: Arman ; Armando ; Bernard Aubertin ; Hermann Bartels ; Hans Bischoffshausen ; Agostino Bonalumi ; Kilian Breier ; Pol Bury ; Enrico Castellani ; Gianni Colombo ; Dadamaino ; Piero Dorazio ; Lucio Fontana ; Hermann Goepfert ; Gerhard von Graevenitz ; Gotthard Graubner ; Hans Haacke ; Jan Henderikse ; Oskar Holweck ; Manfred Kage ; Yves Klein ; Yayoi Kusama ; Walter Leblanc ; Francesco Lo Savio ; Adolf Luther ; Heinz Mack ; Piero Manzoni ; Almir Mavignier ; Christian Megert ; François Morellet ; Herbert Oehm ; Henk Peeters ; Otto Piene ; Uli Pohl ; Dieter Roth ; Hans Salentin ; Jan J. Schoonhoven ; Jesús Rafael Soto ; Daniel Spoerri ; Jean Tinguely ; Günther Uecker ; Paul Van Hoeydonck ; Jef Verheyen ; Nanda Vigo ; Herman de Vries

Catalogue of works

Bibliography 1955-1964 / Herman de Vries

Bibliography 1965-2015.

1900 > 1999

Zero (Group of artists) > Exhibitions.

Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions.

Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin, Germany)

Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum.