Countdown to the future begins at Sak?p Sabanc? Museum

?The ZERO Movement? is at the S.U. Sak?p Sabanc? Museum with groundbreaking artworks Sabanc? University?s Sak?p Sabanc? Museum (SSM) is hosting the innovative and dynamic spirit of ZERO, the biggest art network of the 20th century. 

The exhibition, ?Zero. Countdown to the Future,? focuses on the ZERO movement, which was born in 1957 in Düsseldorf as a response to the stagnant and negative atmosphere following the end of World War II. Its name was inspired by the countdown at a rocket launch.

The exhibition brings together over a hundred works in different materials and techniques by the founders of ZERO, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, along with works by notable artists Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni and Lucio Fontana, who served as spiritual forefathers of the movement. 

?ZERO. Countdown to the Future? is shaped by the core concepts that largely informed the movement, such as light, time, space, color and movement, and is curated by the founding director of the ZERO Foundation, Mattijs Visser.

?The story of holding the ?ZERO. Countdown to the Future? exhibition at SSM started with a meeting with Heinz Mack, one of the founders of this major art and thought movement, during the 2014 Architecture Biennial in Venice. My friendship with Mack has led to art lovers in Turkey becoming acquainted with ZERO, the most important avant-garde movement of the mid-20th century,? said Nazan Ölçer, director of the Sak?p Sabanc? Museum. 

ZERO was born in Germany, the European state where World War II left its profoundest marks. Visser said ZERO?s creation came about at a time of young artists questioning themselves, while creating alternative ways and opportunities of communication, in the existential vacuum...