Heinz Mack, considered one of the most important German artists of the post-war generation, has been reshaping the relationship between art and technology since the 1950s. The ZKM | Karlsruhe now presents his work “Jardin Artificiel” in the foyer of the EnBW headquarters
Mack developed the “Jardin Artificiel” project for his Sahara project from 1959, which represents the artistic vision of a modern solar plantation. The work on display is an artificial garden whose sculptural objects interact with the space and light of the desert. The light was collected and potentiated on the surfaces of the objects, creating vibrating light phenomena flooded with light in the boundless expanses of the desert. The entire Sahara project was realized during the 1960s and 1970s in the sandy deserts of Tunisia and Algeria as well as in the Greenland ice desert.
The exhibition at the EnBW offers the opportunity to get to know the Sahara project with the help of photographs, collages and objects. The exhibition also shows how artistic utopias can manifest theselves in reality and anticipate and shape social discourse.
The exhibition in the foyer of the EnBW corresponds with the exhibition “Mack at ZKM“.
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