THE USE OF THE BODY AS A BRUSH OR A CANVAS
It was the 1960s when artists had the opportunity, as the time was right, to publicly show the naked body and use the body as a brush or canvas in both conceptual and painterly ways. It was a significant breakthrough shortly after World War II, with his dark painting informal artists, crossing both artistic and geographic boundaries. Artists like Christo and Yayoi Kusama explored the boundaries of the permissible, in a cat and mouse game with the authorities. Their “nude happenings” quickly made it to the international press. Yves Klein and Kazuo Shiraga promptly became the “masters” among conceptual painters, whereby the body became a brush and painting elevated to a public “event.” Not to forget Piero Manzoni*, who, with his extreme actions, opened the way to art that had fallen into disrepair for the public, the press, the collectors. These painters, without canvas and brush, have defined the art of today.
This historical exhibition is composed by Mattijs Visser, founding director of the ZERO foundation, with works from the collection of the HEART Museum Herning and in collaboration with the artist estates. Due to the corona situation postponed.
This historical exhibition is composed by Mattijs Visser, founding director of the ZERO foundation, with works from the collection of the HEART Museum Herning and in collaboration with the artist estates. Due to the corona situation postponed.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
ZERO in Vibration, Mona Hobart, Tasmania, 2018-19
Sixty years after the historical exhibition VIBRATION 1958 at the Gladbacherstrasse in Düsseldorf, at the studio from Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, 0-projects has developed the concept for the exhibition ZERO in Vibration at the Mona (Museum of Old and New Art) in Tasmania. Read more >>>
The 7th Socle du Monde Biennale in Herning, Denmark 2017.
The most extensive collection of works by Italian artist Piero Manzoni is at the HEART Museum of Contemporary Art in Herning Denmark. 0-projects has conceived the concept for the Biennale Socle du Monde at the HEART museum. With historical ZERO artists and the younger generation, the Biennale focussed on themes from the sixties and extended the collection with permanent outdoor works. Read more >>>
ZERO, Countdown to Tomorrow, Guggenheim, New York 2015
ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s, is the first large-scale historical survey in the United States dedicated to ZERO, an international network of like-minded artists from Europe, Japan, and North and South America. The exhibition explored the experimental practices developed by this extensive ZERO network of artists, whose work anticipated aspects of Land art, Minimalism, and Conceptual art. See more >>>