Juego de los colores (Farbenspiel). 1999.
Acrylic on canvas.
Lower right signed and dated. Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 95 x 120 cm (37.4 x 47.2 in). [CH].

• In his younger years, the great "ZERO" artist overcame the traditional understanding of art with new design principles and ideas and made light and movement the core theme of his work.
• Light also sets the tone in his painting: Mack breaks down the spectral colors of light in all their diverse nuances.
• After Mack had moved away from painting in 1963, he did not revisit it before the early 1990s, from then on devoted himself to pure color.
• The artist combines the radiant, powerful colors in geometric-abstract fields of color to create a rhythmic and sensual composition.
• Only recently, the Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, showed a grand retrospective of his work (2021) and this year the Osthaus Museum in Hagen dedicates a comprehensive solo exhibition to his painting.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Rhineland (acquired directly from the artist).

"There are painters who avoid the pure and intensive color; it scares them, which is sad."
Heinz Mack, quoted from: Mack – Neue gemalte Bilder, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach 1991, p. 41.

"[My] joy finds expression in – if you read them correctly – the following words: Naples Yellow, Cadmium Yellow, Indian Yellow, Cadmium Orange, Vermilion Red, Cadmium Red, Carmine and Ruby, Ultramarine, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Azure Blue, Helios Blue, Chromium Oxide Green fiery and Ivory Black."
Heinz Mack, 1991, quoted from: Mack – Neue gemalte Bilder, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach 1991, p. 15.