'Light and Color' at Sabanc? Museum

Marking his 85th birthday and the 65th year of his career, German artist Heinz Mack opens 'Mack. Just Light and Color,' featuring over a hundred works at Istanbul's Sak?p Sabanc? MuseumIstanbul's Sak?p Sabanc? Museum is hosting the leading artist of German modernism, Heinz Mack, with an exhibition titled "Mack. Just Light and Color," showcasing the artist's long and prolific career with over a hundred works.

Realized under the curatorship of the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum Director Nazan Ölçer and art historian and former Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sir Norman Rosenthal, the exhibition notably marks the 85th birthday and 60th year of Mack's career with a series of exhibitions taking place in the Far East, Europe and Turkey. 

Mack is notably among the founders of the mid-20th century avant-garde art network, the ZERO movement. The exhibition, encompassing the artist's formative earlier works that informed the revolutionary philosophy of the ZERO movement, brings together paintings, monumental sculptures and kinetic works produced throughout the artist's long career. 

Regarding light as an infinite source of life and pursuing it with unshaken determination has been both a personal approach and an influential artistic strategy for Mack. 

After spending the years of his youth amidst the cold desolation left by World War II in Germany, Mack shaped his art around light, which throughout history and geographies has been the harbinger of a new day and opportunities yet unexplored.

When Mack concluded the works and activities within the ZERO framework in 1967, the artist continued to work intensively as an independent philosopher and artist. His investigative approach to his work began within...