Ohne Titel. 1965.
Nails and white paint on canvas over panel.
Not in Honisch. Verso signed and dedicated "In Freundschaft für Sacha und Frau" (in friendship for Sacha and wife) as well as inscribed with direction arrow and the information "oben" (top). 60 x 60 x 13 cm (23.6 x 23.6 x 5.1 in).
- Early work from the important "ZERO" days.
- Appealing nail arrangement.
- In private possession for 50 years.
- This work has never been offered on the market before.
This work is registered at the Uecker Archive with the number GU.65.113 and has been earmarked for inclusion into Uecker's forthcoming catalog raisonné.
PROVENANCE: Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (obtained as Christmas present from the artist in 1965; every since family property).
"Visualizing the course of a motion as a state of livelines in which man actively partakes in creative repitition, in monotony, is an exciting action indeed. It can be perceived spiritually - like a prayer. My objects are spatial realities, a zone of light. I employ mechanic means in order to overcome the subjective gesture, to gain in objectivity, to create a situation of freedom."
Günther Uecker, 1961, quote after: ZERO. Die internationale Kunstbewegung der 50er und 60er Jahre, ex. cat. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2015, p. 488.