ARNDT takes project space at Gillman Barracks in Singapore
Opening: 18 January 2013, 6 - 9 p.m.

ARNDT Singapore is a project space, viewing room and Asian office for internationally renowned art dealer, Matthias Arndt.
The Singapore premises is situated in the new art destination, Gillman Barracks which is located in the center of Singapore that houses galleries and creative businesses, as well as the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) opening in 2013.
ARNDT Singapore will be staging shows of leading international artists as well as projects and curated shows featuring South East Asian Art.  The Singapore office will enable ARNDT to further develop both private and corporate collections and artist management in the Asia-Pacific Region.

ARNDT Singapore in the PRESS

The Straits Times | 14 Jan 2013 | Huang Lijie | Pairing artists from East and West

The first exhibition will feature:

Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and ZERO: Light & Reflection

January 18 to March 31, 2013

ARNDT is pleased to present Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and ZERO: Light & Reflection, the opening show of the new Singapore project space exhibiting works by Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Lucio Fontana and Yves Klein.

The ZERO Group, celebrated worldwide in museums and collections with planned shows at Grand Palais Paris, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum NYC, and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam from spring 2013 to 2015, has been founded by Otto Piene and Heinz Mack (and Günther Uecker) in 1958, with the goal of revolutionising post-war art, leaving received principles of art behind.
From now, light and movement was the central point of their art. What had begun in Düsseldorf, Germany, would develop in less than a decade into one of the most significant avant-garde movements of the 20th century.
When ZERO disbanded in 1966, the group had collaborated with a wide range of artist – such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Jean Tinguely and Yayoi Kusama. After more than half a century of ZERO, the group is once again becoming a centre of public attention; therefore it was only a matter of time that the three exceptional artists Otto Piene, Heinz Mack and Günther Uecker would equalise with the wider circle of ZERO members on the international art landscape and market.

Please click here to view a complete list of exhibited works.

Opening Hours: Wed – Sun 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
And by appointment: Singapore@arndtberlin.com

Address:
ARNDT Fine Art Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Gillman Barracks, 22, Lock Road, #01-35
Singapore 108939

Email: Singapore@arndtberlin.com
 

05.11.2011 - 29.02.2012
THE EPHEMERAL
Exhibition website

Group show with works by:
Absalon | Moridja Kitenge Banza | Joseph Beuys | Hanne Darboven | Wim Delvoye | Rebecca Horn | Mathilde ter Heijne | Jannis Kounellis | Keisuke Matsuura  | Christian Megert | Heinz Mack | David Noonan | Henk Peeters | Otto Piene | Jackson Pollock | Julian Rosefeldt | Matt Saunders | Chiharu Shiota | Miroslav Tichý | Grazia Toderi | Susan Turcot | Franz West | Nick van Woert | Yang Jiechang

The Ephemeral is an exhibition of 26 artists all dealing with elements and traces of the morbid, the delicate, and the temporary. They convey that small gestures can have a big impact and that especially the “silent scream” can be heard crystal clear once you fade out the ambient noise (das Grundrauschen) that surrounds us everywhere today.
Artists have always analyzed questions of the ephemeral in their work. In doing so, many artists have not merely used materials and means of expression that might disintegrate or which border on the immaterial, but rather have foregrounded the very changeability of the artwork itself.
Thus, for instance, the works of Jannis Kounellis contrast substantial materials such as coal and metal with mutable or intangible materials such as frost covering slabs or fire burning in lamps fuelled by a limited supply of petroleum.
Often enough, the ephemeral appears to be a fragile apparition wavering on the edge of existence, such as in a drawing by Joseph Beuys; the ephemeral draws its power precisely from its evanescence. But the ephemeral can also function as a warning highlighting the transience of all being. Such memento mori, remind the viewer of death and the finitude of the self. In a pietà by Beuys, the memento mori is twisted into a promise that death might not be the final station after all. The art of Miroslav Tichý seeks to apprehend the brevity of the moment by dwelling on a young girl bathing, suffused with the full romantic melancholy of one who is aware that beauty fades.
Some creative acts appear brief only when measured solely by temporal criteria. The flash of insight and inspiration is followed by what can be a protracted, laborious process, yet the final product nevertheless preserves the freshness and revelation of the distilled thought. The artwork transforms the thought into a form that allows the moment to be recreated, without allowing it, in its eternal repetition, to grow insipid. Movement too belongs to the fleeting manifestations of art, such as the elegant, occasionally jerky but nevertheless graceful motions of Rebecca Horn’s machines, or a historical moment captured on video. Julian Rosefeldt and Piero Steinle have gathered historical photographs of explosions of equally historic buildings to a pandemonium of iconoclasm. The time of the explosion becomes a point in time demonstrating both the finite nature of the moment as well as the powerful effects beyond the destruction. Even destroyed these moment keep their meaning. In these moments proves to be the special aura of the art, which is in the best position to act between the precarious and the constantly incomprehensible.
Grazia Toderi’s films have that ethereal and almost spiritual ambiance, impossible to localise in the past, present or future.
Heinz Mack had such an optimistic and constructive approach towards the future already in the works of his Zero phase in the 1960s: In his attempt to capture the traces and essence of light in his sculptures that look rather similar to scientific installations than to at that time traditional artworks, his work even 50 years later still looks like coming directly back from the future to pay us a visit.
The exhibition will be accompanied by its own webpage. Please visit www.theephemeral.com, contact us for further information at info@arndtberlin.com or download the online catalogue.

HEINZ MACK
HEINZ MACK IN BERLIN - WORKS FROM 1958 - 2012
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ARNDT BERLN

26 October 2012 – 28 February 2013
Opening: 25 October, 6 – 9 pm

With Heinz Mack in Berlin — Works 1958-2012, ARNDT is pleased to present the hitherto most comprehensive show of works since his retrospective in the Pergamon Museum in 2006. This show of one of the most important living German painters and sculptors marks the official start of a collaboration between Heinz Mack and Matthias Arndt.
On show will be main works from all periods, starting with the canvas Black & White, 1958 (price on request) already exhibited in 1960 at the Galerie Schmela, along with museum works from the ZERO period, such as White Relief, 1959, the kinetic rotor-work, Prism Whirl, 1960 (Denise René Gallery, New York) and the Cabinet of Light Treasures, 1964. In an exhibition covering almost five hundred square metres, a total of forty reliefs, paintings, sculptures, kinetic works and works on paper from 1958 up to the most recent paintings and reliefs made
this year will be shown.
The exhibition formulates a homage of the artist, Heinz Mack, to Berlin where, starting with his earliest artistic work, he has left his mark in all artistic genres in galleries, private and public collections through to his numerous sculptures in public places. This is the first exhibition devoted emphatically to Heinz Mack's relationship with Berlin. "The exhibition’s central concern is not only to show Heinz Mack as the innovative and tirelessly working artist that he is, who has inspired several generations of artists up to current work in art. In addition, for me personally, I am impressed above all by the spirituality of Heinz Mack's entire oeuvre and the optimism it radiates." (Matthias Arndt)
For decades, Heinz Mack continually prescribed for himself the task of researching and representing light in its cosmic dimension. Since the 1960s he has been regarded as one of the pioneering artists for the development of OP art and kinetic art in Germany, whose achievements and international impact are only now being more closely investigated. With numerous museum exhibitions and retrospectives, Heinz Mack's work was comprehensively presented last year on the artist's 80th birthday, making the influence of his creative work on younger generations of artists clearly recognizable. In his artistic approach, Mack is a humanist who seeks to study and grasp the world in all its facets. He quotes poetry and philosophy as sources for his research, along with the natural sciences and technology. With all means and in all conceivable ways, for decades and up to the present day, the artist tries to enrich and present his knowledge about what light is. However, with Mack, it is by no means simply a matter of the transfer or communication of deeper insights and meanings that are interwoven with the visibility of things. Rather, he places great importance on presenting the sensuous power and limitless radiation of light as a spiritual energy transcending space, but realizing itself in space, dissolving distances. His conception of light is thus a dialectical one in that he always incorporates shadow as counterweight in his aesthetic reflections.
Heinz Mack’s extraordinary oeuvre includes monumental commissions for outdoor spaces and the design of public places and spaces. Many of them have been realized in Berlin, including the Light Columns before the Europacenter, the Column Arcades and the Bronze Obelisk on Henriettenplatz, as well as the Piazzetta at the Cultural Forum.

Born in 1931 in Hessian Lollar, Heinz Mack studied from 1950 to 1953 at the Düsseldorf State Academy of Art and in addition completed studies in philosophy at the University of Cologne in 1956. Together with Otto Piene, in 1957 he founded the ZERO group in Düsseldorf. He took part in documenta II and documenta III in Kassel. Apart from stays in New York, working and film expeditions to the Algerian desert and to the Arctic, he was appointed in 1970 to a teaching position in Osaka, Japan, and became a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, to which he belonged until 1992. At the 35th Biennale in Venice he represented the Federal Republic of Germany (along with Uecker, Pfahler and Lenk). In 2004 Mack was awarded the Grand Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as First Distinction in recognition of his work and his impact as a cultural ambassador. In 2011 Mack was honoured with the Grand Order of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. Up to the present day, Mack's works have been shown in almost 300 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. His works are represented in 136 public collections, including in Berlin at the Nationalgalerie, the Kupferstichkabinett and the Berlinische Galerie. Numerous books and catalogues as well as two films document his artistic work. Heinz Mack lives and works in Mönchengladbach and on Ibiza.

Please click here to view the accompanying exhibition catalogue.

PRESS

Der Tagesspiegel | 01/2013 | Christiane Meixner

art | 01/2013 | Michael Kohler

Welt am Sonntag | 12/2012 | Marcus Woeller

HEINZ MACK

Solo exhibition at ARNDT Singapore
September 12 – November 9, 2014
Opening reception | Thursday | September 11, 2014
6-8 pm    Opening reception
7 pm       Aesthetic Meditations: Heinz Mack and the Art of ZERO
              Talk by Prof. Uwe Fleckner (Uni Hamburg, Stanford)


Please click here to view the list of works.

ARNDT SINGAPORE is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Heinz Mack, one of the most significant figures in German art and a founding member of the famous ZERO group. The show at ARNDT Singapore will be artist’s first individual exhibition in South East Asia and will commence with a talk by Professor Uwe Fleckner, a distinguished art historian, Professor of Human Sciences at University of Hamburg and Gerda Henkel Visiting Professor of German Studies at Stanford University, California.

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Born in 1931 in Lollar, Germany, he studied Art and Education at the National Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, as well as Philosophy at the University of Cologne. In 1956, together with Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, he founded artist group ZERO which gained international recognition with spectacular projects at Documenta II and III in Kassel. Together with fellow abstract artists such as Günther Uecker, Georg Karl Pfahler and Thomas Lenk, he represented Germany at the 35th Venice Biennale in 1970. Heinz Mack and the ZERO group are considered one of the key movements in post-war European art. Recent years brought numerous retrospective exhibition and academic publications devoted to the ZERO movement. The exhibition at ARNDT will feature works from various periods of Mack’s artistic journey, from early works to the ZERO period to the very recent ones. The show will comprise of various media: paintings, reliefs, sculpture, kinetic installations, works on paper and will serve as an hommage to his research within the field of abstract art and a role as a pioneer of op and kinetic art in Germany. Coinciding with the show at ARNDT is Heinz Mack’s appearance at this year’s Venice Biennale of Architecture; The Sky Over Nine Columns – an installation comprising of nine columns and a golden mosaic – is currently stationed in front of the church San Giorgio Maggiore. Also parallel is a touring exhibition dedicated to the oeuvre of Heinz Mack and the ZERO group. "ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s" world tour will commence at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in Autumn 2014 and then travel to Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin in 2015. Heinz Mack, who throughout his career also acted as a member of Academy of the Arts in Berlin and a visiting professor in Osaka, Japan, was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2004), a major national prize was granted for commitment to fostering culture and acting as a cultural representative abroad. Most recently he was also honoured with the Grand Order of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany (2011). Heinz Mack's works have been shown in almost 300 solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. His works remain in over 100 public collection around the world and are highly sought after in the art market. Heinz Mack currently lives and works in Mönchengladbach, Germany, and Ibiza, Spain.

ARNDT Singapore
Gillman Barracks
9 Lock Road #03-21
Singapore 108937
Tel. +65 67340775

ART BASEL HONG KONG 2015 - March 15 - 17, 2015

ARNDT is pleased to announce its participation at Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, taking place from March 15 - 17. We are looking forward to welcoming you at our BOOTH Hall 3 C30.

Participating Artists: Jumaldi Alfi, Stephan Balkenhol, Jigger Cruz, Wim Delvoye, Gilbert & George, Yang Jiechang, Heinz Mack, Rudi Mantofani, Vik Muniz, Eko Nugroho, Norberto Roldan, Arin Dwihartanto Sunaryo, Rodel Tapaya and Qiu Zhijie.

Please click here to see a preliminary list of the exhibited artworks

Venue:
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre
1 Harbour Road
Wan Chai, Hong Kong

ARNDT Berlin
Potsdamer Strasse 96
10785 Berlin
info@arndtberlin.com

Heinz Mack: Review and Outlook

A Special Selection - 2016

ARNDT is pleased to announce a new publication in collaboration with Samuelis Baumgarte, Bielefeld, Arndt Art Agency (A3), Berlin, and Arndt Fine Art, Singapore. Produced on the occasion of the artist's 85th birthday, the catalogue accompanies the three part exhibition: "Mack: Review and Outlook | A Special Selection - Hommage to his 85th birthday" (2016). The title includes an essay surveying Heinz Mack's artistic career entitled "Heinz Mack and the "zero hour" of German art history" written by art historian Prof. Uwe Fleckner.

Hardcover, 124 pages
English

ISBN 978-3-9816408-4-7

EXPLORE THE FULL PUBLICATION HERE