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Ciudad de las Artes, de las Ciencias... y de los mosaicos dorados
La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia acoge hasta el 6 de noviembre la instalación The Sky Over Nine Columns del artista alemán Heinz Mack, integrada por nueve columnas simétricas, de más de 7 metros de altura y que presentan una piel con 850.000 mosaicos dorados.
La muestra, que está ubicada desde el 24 de junio en el lago sur del Hemisfèric sobre una plataforma, ha contado previamente con emplazamientos también singulares en las ciudades de Venecia y Estambul. Ahora, en Valencia, aporta un fascinante juego de luces y reflejos durante el día y la noche.
Las columnas se erigen en como elementos básicos de la arquitectura y la escultura y, también, como unión del mundo terrenal y celestial. También las teselas doradas cumplen una función de nexo, en este caso entre Oriente y Occidente, una vinculación que, además, se ve con las sedes que han acogida la instalación: Venecia, Estambul y Valencia, punto y final de la Ruta de la Seda y, por ende, de la gran autopista comercial de la época.
Heinz Mack ha trabajado durante 60 años como pintor y escultor. En 1958 fue cofundador del influyente colectivo alemán Grupo Zero.
THE SKY OVER NINE COLUMNS IN VALENCIA // The City of Arts and Sciences of Valencia has on display until 6 November The Sky Over Nine Columns, an installation by German artist Heinz Mack, whose works have light as the central axis. Kosme de Barañano is the curator of this project, which consists of nine symmetrical columns, more than seven meters high each, coated with 850,000 golden tesserae.
The Sky Over Nine Columns was carried out by the Ralph Dommermuth Stiftung Kunst und Kultur Foundation in collaboration with Beck & Eggeling International Fine Art (Düsseldorf).
"For me, space is as important as sculpture [...]. I cannot imagine one without the other.” With these words Heinz Mack stresses the importance of the location of his art works, reason why the first location of The Sky Over Nine Columns was on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice during the Biennale in 2014, to later be on display in the garden of sculptures of Sakip Sabanci in Istanbul. The chosen place this time, the southern lake of the Hemisfèric of the City of Arts and Sciences, in harmony with Santiago Calatrava’s architectural complex, is another ideal site in which to contemplate his light sculptures.
The column is the oldest element in the history of architecture, with a direct link between heaven and earth. It’s no coincidence that Mack has sought to place his work within an architectural complex in which wavy lines predominate and where the golden light of the columns reflect on the white of the buildings and the blue water, creating a unique luminous performance.
Heinz Mack has a great interest in exploring pure light in areas that have an unspoilt nature. In 1959, Mack outlined the so-called Sahara-Project, which took place in the African desert between 1962 and 1963. On several occasions, he installed an "artificial garden" in the desert formed by mirrors, cubes, posters and monumental trails of light. In 1968, these experimental practices on the force of light in different objects were documented in the film Tele-Mack. The result of these investigations are those that have led to the The Sky Over Nine Columns installation.
During 60 years, Heinz Mack (Lollar, Germany, 1931) has worked as a painter and sculptor. In 1958 he co-founded the ZERO Group with Otto Piene and Günther Ueker, which later led to an international movement joined by Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. The Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2014 dedicated an important exhibition to this postwar German group, following in the footsteps of other major exhibitions held in Amsterdam, Berlin and Istanbul.
Mack, along with other German artists, represented Germany in 1970 at the 35th Art Biennale of Venice. Since the early 50s he has developed a genuine artistic language based on light and colour, becoming one of the highest exponent of kinetic art. Currently, he lives and works in Mönchengladbach and the island of Ibiza.