Valerie L. Hillings / Catherine Millet Co-auteur: Heike Van Den Valentyn — 1957-1966 ZERO NY 2008
Gent, MER Paper Kunsthalle, 2008 hardcover, 320 pages, illustrations, 21x20cm, Fine condition ISBN 9789076979731. starting in the middle of the 1950s the art movement ZERO revolutionised the art of the post-war period with a new pictorial and formal language. From its biginnings the movement had an international network. The Dusseldorf artists' community of Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Gunther Uecker was attached to an array of European groupings, whose intermediary figure from 1960 was Piero Manzoni. Next to him Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana also played key rolls. Their contacts reached as far as East Asia through the artists' group GUTAI, who like European avant-garde, developed out of a desire to break free from the old order. MUSEUM KUNST PALAST Dusseldorf 2006 of the exhibition: ZERO internationale Kunstler Avantgarde der 50er/60er Jahre.
