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Lot 22
Heinz Mack (b. 1931)
Stele
Closed6 November 2013
Price Realised
EUR 32,500
More Information
Specialist note
Heinz Mack says about this way of design, which he calls star symbol or Y symbol:
'... that what seems to be so abstract is actually full of immense perceptible presence. This symbol materializes the energy of spatial extension, the incessant space continuum. The direction-free, apparently static space is formed out of a center of energy and radiates - expands. These are symbols for energy in the space which I don't want to be confused with the coordinates: height, width, depth.' (Heinz Mack quoted in Mack... in. Wegweiser zu den Werken von Heinz Mack, Ute Mack (Hg.), Düsseldorf, Wien, New York, Moscow 1992, p. 168)
The stele as a technically perfect work of art becomes a message, becomes the idea of the spirit. Heinz Mack's overall intention, namely to establish a referential weight for the art and its power to fascinate in the environment's social space is visible in his stele.
'... that what seems to be so abstract is actually full of immense perceptible presence. This symbol materializes the energy of spatial extension, the incessant space continuum. The direction-free, apparently static space is formed out of a center of energy and radiates - expands. These are symbols for energy in the space which I don't want to be confused with the coordinates: height, width, depth.' (Heinz Mack quoted in Mack... in. Wegweiser zu den Werken von Heinz Mack, Ute Mack (Hg.), Düsseldorf, Wien, New York, Moscow 1992, p. 168)
The stele as a technically perfect work of art becomes a message, becomes the idea of the spirit. Heinz Mack's overall intention, namely to establish a referential weight for the art and its power to fascinate in the environment's social space is visible in his stele.