Heinz MackDoppel-Karo (Chromatische Konstellation)Acrylic on cardboard on panel. 93 x 123 cm. Signed

Heinz Mack
Doppel-Karo (Chromatische Konstellation)
Acrylic on cardboard on panel. 93 x 123 cm. Signed and dated 'mack 96' and signed, dated and titled '"Doppel-Karo" mack 96 chromatische Konstellation' verso on panel. - Traces of studio and surface rubbing to margins due to framing.

Provenance
Acquired directly from the artist; company collection, Rhineland

Thoughts on painting
-The colour means only itself
-The relationships between the colours are autonomous
-The square canvas as picture carrier, I can accept again, but leave it occasionally when I make spacial constellations which I then paint.

My interest is:
One non-representational painting, which is not hostile to nature, which does not follow any programme or system, but in the structural order and structural framework of which a pictorial tectonic is shown, a painting in which constructive elements dominate over organic forms, where cristalline structures and light refractions appear, a painting in which every picture has its indiduality but which simultaneously objectifies to the extent that it may be entitled to the universe.

One painting, enabling the simple, elementary forms of colour to breathe, to swing, to radiate, to flow, to light, to rest.

One painting, in which the picture strategy is generous and the pictorial theme is memorable, significant, succinct, sovereign, triumphant, symbolic like the heraldry of a flag for example.

One painting, in which the contrasts of the colours is vital, but in which at the same time a multiple chromatic refraction of the colours ensures a great wealth of nuances.

One painting, in which the opache and transparent colours contrast, but which are also simultaneously mutually dependent in terms of the lucidity and shading, densification and transparency.

One painting, in which the colours are concrete, appear as coloured actual matter and at the same time immaterial, as energy fields, as vibration levels in the irrational picture space.

I am interested in painting in which imaginations are substantiated, in which - perhaps in accordance with an inner code - essential human experiences sublimate and densify.

I am interested in a painting in which memories from archaic depths penetrate through to the light-filled surface, far from all 'private mythologies', instead, objectified eperience, of universal interest.

I love a sensual painting which stimulates, delights and thrills the viewer, but which at the same time is moderate, controlled and calm.

And I expect, also from my painting, that they not only encourage the viewer to see colours more coloured, but rather that they move them to cultivate their vision and with it to view the world more critically.

My painting is a culture of surfaces under the prerequisite that the surface is unthinkable without the depth. Surfaces are basically not more 'upper-surface' than 'under-surface' and under-surfaces remain invisible as long as they do not become upper-surfaces. Everything we see in art are surfaces. What art is and what it is not is decided on them. (Heinz Mack, Gedanken zur Malerei, in: Uta Mack et.al. (ed.), Mack, Malerei, 1991-2001, Mönchengladbach 2001, pp. 14-15).

Heinz Mack
Doppel-Karo (Chromatische Konstellation)
Acryl auf Karton auf Holz. 93 x 123 cm. Signiert und datiert 'mack 96' sowie rückseitig auf dem Holz signiert, datiert und betitelt '"Doppel-Karo" mack 96 chromatische Konstellation'. - Mit Atelierspuren sowie die Ränder mit rahmungsbedingten Bereibungen.

Provenienz
Direkt vom Künstler erworben; Firmensammlung, Rheinland

Gedanken zur Malerei

- Die Farbe bedeutet nur sich selbst.
- Die Beziehungen unter den Farben sind autonom.
- Die rechteckige Leinwand als Bildträger, ich akzeptiere sie wieder, verlasse sie aber auch gelegentlich, wenn ich abstrakte, räumliche Konstellationen