Serigraph in colors on cardboard
Germany, 1990
Otto Piene (1928-2014) – German artist and co-founder of the artist group ZERO
Numbered, signed and dated lower left in pencil ‘21/75 Piene 90’
Framed
Image dimensions: 96 x 67 cm
Good condition
Otto Piene is one of the great artists of the avant-garde of the 1960s. Light, air and fire are the design elements of his art; lithographs by the artist fetch up to €2,200 at international auctions

The art of the German artist Otto Piene is about light, air and fire. Also in the present serigraph from 1990, the amorphous form in tones of brown and an orange accent on a blue ground recalls a cloud of smoke of an explosion.

The serigraph is numbered, signed and dated lower left in pencil ‘21/75 Piene 90’. The sheet bears a light crease lower left and a minor upsetting in the left edge. Overall the condition is good. The full-sheet image measures 96 x 67 cm. The framed dimensions are 103 x 73.5 cm



Otto Piene (1928-2014)

Otto Piene first studied painting and art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and later in Dusseldorf and Cologne. From 1955 onwards his works were shown in group exhibitions – multiple times at the documenta in Kassel – and a few years later in solo exhibitions. In 1957, Piene, together with Heinz Mack, founded the ZERO group and started publishing the eponymous magazine. In his paintings he dealt with the concepts of light, movement and space, producing so-called smoke and fire paintings as a reference to the elementary energies of nature. Already in 1967, a first retrospective of Piene’s works took place in Dortmund. American and European awards followed. From 1972 onwards he has been a professor of Environmental Art at MIT. Otto Piene lived and worked in Dusseldorf and Massachusetts. His work can be seen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA in New York. In 2014, Piene’s creative legacy was honored with an exhibition at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin whilst a major travelling exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Gropius-Bau in Berlin and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented a survey of Zero-Art. (fea)

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