Berlin, 2 August 2010, (kk) – Works by ZERO artists are more in demand than ever before. Today they reach record heights on the auction market, often much too high for younger collectors, but Ketterer Kunst in Berlin now offers an affordable alternative.

Heinz Mack
Blauer Rotor. 1971
Silkscreen in colors. 59,8 x 59,8 cm
Price: € 1 040

A little while ago Ketterer Kunst in Munich sold two nail objects by Günther Uecker for € 354 000* and € 170 000* respectively, call-up prices were at € 200 000 and € 65 000. In the same auction Heinz Mack‘s "Structure dynamique" soared from € 30 000 to € 73 000*. Beginning collectors can only dream of such purchases. However, entirely doing without the sought-after works by Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, as well as other important artists around the group ZERO is not necessary.

Günter Uecker
Without title. 1992
Woodcut. 88,5 x 59,5 cm
Price: € 1 560

From 7 September to 7 October 2010 Ketterer Kunst in Berlin Charlottenburg hosts a sales exhibition of original prints by the ZERO triumvirate as well as by Rupprecht Geiger and Gotthard Graubner.

Just as many young art collectors do, ZERO artists always explore uncharted waters. With their critical examination of traditions, they create something entirely unprecedented. After all, ZERO stands for the "immeasurable zone, in which an established state evolves into a new and unknown state", said Otto Piene in 1960, when explaining the group’s name and its principles. The Manifest Zero der neue Idealismus [Manifest Zero The New Idealism] gets to the heart of it: "Zero is silence. Zero is the beginning (…)".

Otto Piene
(Without title). Presumably 1972
Silkscreen in colors. 36 x 28 cm
Price € 780

With this content, the quest for something new, something significant, the ZERO artists tap the pulse of our age. When Piene and Mack speak of an artists‘ movement in the sense of change, "serving the purpose of a base and zero-point for a new sensitization for the environment", they exactly address what many people long for these days.

The exhibition of original print art by Mack, Piene, Uecker, Geiger and Graubner can be visited from 7 September - 7 October at Ketterer Kunst in the Fasanenstr. 70 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. Open from Monday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. All works are for sale. Prices range between € 500 and € 2 000.

* The result is the hammer price + 22 percent buyer’s premium in art auctions.