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Materials:

mixed media on canvas, oil, soot on canvas

Size Notes:

each

Description:

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Markings:

Signed on the reverse '62 (each); Label on the reverse

Exhibited:

"Zero" Ad Libitum Gal., Antwerp 1963

Provenance:

Ad Libitum Gal., Antwerp private coll., Antwerp Otto Piene Zero is the silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero spins. Zero is the moon. The sun is Zero. Zero is white. The desert Zero. The sky above Zero. The night – . Zero flows. The eye Zero. Navel. Mouth. Kiss. The milk is round. The flower Zero the bird. Silently. Floating. I eat Zero, I drink Zero, I sleep Zero, I am awake Zero, I love Zero. Zero is beautiful. dynamo dynamo dynamo. The trees in springtime, the snow, fire, water, sea. Red orange yellow green indigo blue violet Zero Zero rainbow. 4321 Zero. Gold and silver, sound and smoke. Traveling circus Zero. Zero is the silence. Zero is the beginning. Zero is round. Zero is Zero. Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, and Günther Uecker. Poem originally published on poster and in leaflet for ZERO – Der neue Idealismus, poetisches Manifest, Galerie Diogenes, Berlin, 1963.