Herbert Zangs
Œuvres 1952-1959
- Exhibition, Paris
- Fri 20 Jan → Sun 19 Feb 1995
Location
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain
261 boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
The Fondation Cartier exhibits over thirty works of Herbert Zangs, “pioneer of the monochrome,” as Pierre Restany characterized him; all are from his most revealing period, from 1952 to 1959.
Herbert Zangs has long eluded the classifications of Art History. His “white works” were invented between 1952 and 1959. In the ruined Germany of the post-war period, he whitened everything he found, salvaged objects, silk or craft paper, bits of wood, boxes, fabrics, metal grids. It was a radical choice with respect to painting, an unheard-of choice with respect to the object. “The white adheres to the object like snow to landscape,” Herbert Zangs says. This exhibition lays special importance on the white period, all the way up to the first black works realized in 1958. From time to time a human form, a face, or a handprint are fleetingly evoked beneath the white paint, a moving presence filtering through the folds of paper.
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