PRESS RELEASE: for immediate publication

ZERO ERA Mack and his artist friends

5th September until 31st October 2014

left: Heinz Mack, Dynamische Struktur schwarz-weiß, resin on canvas, 1961, 130 x 110 cm right: Otto Piene, Es brennt, Öl, oil, fire and smoke on linen, 1966, 79,6 x 99,8 cm

Beck & Eggeling presents at the start of the autumn season the exhibition „ZERO ERA. Mack and his artist friends“ - works from the Zero movement from 1957 until 1966.

The opening will take place on Friday, 5th September 2014 at 6 pm at Bilker Strasse 5 and 4-6 in Duesseldorf, on the occasion of the gallery weekend 'DC Open 2014'. Heinz Mack will be present.

After ten years of intense and successful cooperation between the gallery and Heinz Mack, culminating in the monumental installation project „The Sky Over Nine Columns“ in Venice, the artist now opens up his private archives exclusively for Beck & Eggeling. This presents the opportunity to delve into the ZERO period, with a focus on the oeuvre of Heinz Mack and his relationship with his artist friends of this movement. Important artworks as well as documents, photographs, designs for invitations and letters bear testimony to the radical and vanguard ideas of this period.

To the circle of Heinz Mack's artist friends belong founding members Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, as well as the artists Bernard Aubertin, Hermann Bartels, Enrico Castellani, Piero

BECK & EGGELING BILKER STRASSE 5 | D 40213 DÜSSELDORF | T +49 211 49 15 890 | [email protected] Dorazio, Lucio Fontana, Hermann Goepfert, Gotthard Graubner, Oskar Holweck, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama, Walter Leblanc, Piero Manzoni, Almir da Silva Mavignier, Christian Megert, George Rickey, Jan Schoonhoven, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely and Jef Verheyen, who will also be represented in this exhibition.

A bilingual catalogue accompanying the exhibition will be published.

ZERO ERA. Mack and his artist friends, 5th September bis 31st October 2014

Special opening times during the gallery weekend 'DC Open 2014':

Friday 5th September 2014 – 6 – 10 pm Saturday 6th September 2014 – 12 noon – 8 pm Sunday 7th September 2014 – 12 noon – 6 pm

Beck & Eggeling Bilkerstr. 5 + 4-6 40213 Düsseldorfer T +49 211 49 15 890 F +49 211 49 15 899 www.beck-eggeling.de [email protected]

For further information and printable images please contact: Jil Campisi Beck & Eggeling [email protected] Tel: + 49 211 21079-11

BECK & EGGELING BILKER STRASSE 5 | D 40213 DÜSSELDORF | T +49 211 49 15 890 | [email protected]