Günther
Uecker
Günther
Uecker
Uecker
German, born in 1930
A prolific and multidisciplinary artist, Günther Uecker pushes the technical and formal boundaries of kinetic art by impressing a sense of movement to space, light and time. The optical phenomena, the handling of electricity and his obsessive use of nails animate sculptures, paintings and particularly immersive installations.
Fascinated by Eastern philosophies, Uecker is incessantly searching for formal simplicity and spiritual purity. His quest took him in the 1960s to the German group ZERO, a movement that, by deviating from the dominant artistic trends of the time, advocated the return to the “zero level in art”. He then discovered conceptual art and body art and began to make of the viewer the engine and actor of his works.
The work of Günther Uecker was first shown by the Pinault Collection at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
Fascinated by Eastern philosophies, Uecker is incessantly searching for formal simplicity and spiritual purity. His quest took him in the 1960s to the German group ZERO, a movement that, by deviating from the dominant artistic trends of the time, advocated the return to the “zero level in art”. He then discovered conceptual art and body art and began to make of the viewer the engine and actor of his works.
The work of Günther Uecker was first shown by the Pinault Collection at the 2016 “Accrochage” ("Hanging") exhibition at the Punta della Dogana.
