UECKER GÜNTHER Interview
Günther Uecker was born on March 13, 1930, in Wendorf, Mecklenburg, Germany. He is a sculptor, set designer, and Kinetic artist. He studied art at Wismar and at the Berlin-Weissensse Academy from 1949 to 1953. His first work was social-realist in style. Until 1957 he attended the Düsseldorf Academy and during those years he started painting using relief elements.
In 1957 he simplifed his palette to black, red, or white, and his work comprised patterns of dots or horizontal and vertical lines scattered across the surface of the painting. The year 1957 also marked the production of the artist’s first nail relief. This was the first stage of his experimentation with relief, which would later lead him to apply other objects on the surface of the painting, such as corks or cardboard tubes. The nail-covered surface became the antithesis of a painted surface, allowing the artist to explore light arrangement via the shadows created by the nails. From 1960 onward, the artist, who had hitherto been arranging nails on the surface of the canvas according to regularized mathematical sequences, introduced organic patterns and structures to his work and created his first disc-shaped rotating sculptures and light boxes.
Uecker with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene founded Gruppo Zero in 1961. They were interested in the visual/kinetic aspects within the emerging Kinetic Art movement; Gruppo Zero was, in fact, that movement’s German counterpart. As Kinetic Art was concerned with movement and dynamics, science and technology were primary concerns and linked the group to the Dadaists and Futurists. The Gruppo Zero soon became a reference point and inspiration for many European trends of those years, like the Gruppo T and the Gruppo N in Italy, and various Optical Art experiments throughout Europe. Uecker’s body of work includes oscillating sculptures and nail-covered chairs, tables, and pianos. From 1966 onward, the artist began to incorporate high-frequency electrical power into his work and began to make large outdoor projects in 1969. His work also includes monochrome relief prints, films, and sets and costumes for the operas Fidelio (1974) and Parsifal (1976).
The artist currently works in Düsseldorf.
On 2012 the exhibition "Enrico Castellani and Günther Uecker", comparing works, from 01/09 to 13/01/2013 at Museum of Modern Art Cà Pesaro, Venice.

Günther Uecker Diagonal gestortes Feld 2009, 300x300cm Leim, Kreide, Leinwand auf Leinwand

Günther Uecker Couvertiert 2009 300x300cm Leim, Kreide, Leinwand auf Leinwand Courtesy of the artist

Günther Uecker Struttura tattile rotante (Taktile Struktur rotierend), 1961 Legno, tela da imballaggio, alluminio, chiodi di ferro e vernice d'argento, 61 x 52,7 cm Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venezia

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia 31/08/2012

Da sx Nanda Vigo, Günther Uecker, Enrico Castellani, Gillo Dorfles, Beatrice Monti, Willoughby Sharp Foto d'epoca alla Biennale Venezia

Enrico Castellani e Günther Uecker Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Cà Pesaro Venezia
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