Already 52 years ago, Heinz Mack, who is one of the most important representatives of kinetic art worldwide, represented Germany at the 35th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. In 2014, the artist of ZERO group, who developed his own language in light art in the 1950s, was on display parallel to the Biennale Architettura with his 7.5-meter-high installation The Sky Over Nine Columns, consisting of nine golden, light-reflecting pillars, in front of the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore. Now the German sculptor and painter, who turned 90 last year, returns to Venice with an extensive solo exhibition within the section Collateral Events of the Biennale Arte 2022. From April 23 to July 17, 2022, the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (Ministero della Cultura) in coopaeration with the Association for Art in Public, located directly on St. Mark’s Square, will present the Collateral Event with the selected works by the award-winning artist under the title „Heinz Mack – Vibration of Light“.

The Collateral Event shows in an imposing spatial installation an impressive cross-section of Mack’s oeuvre of the last 60 years: beside large-scale paintings, a group of partly rotating light steles and a four-meter-high mirror sculpture, created especially for this exhibition, will be presented.

Photo ©: Sebastian Drueen