In the White Sky II, 1965/67
MediumOil, smoke on canvas
(H x W x D)102,5 × 132,5 × 3,8 cm
About the work"Light is the first condition of all visibility," wrote Otto Piene. The sky, in turn, is the origin of light and darkness, both of which are essential to the artist's work. From 1959, he used fire as a creative medium. Piene created the shapes from black smoke by setting fire to the applied oil paint. By moving the canvas, he influenced the traces of the flames on the painting surface. A graduate of the Düsseldorf Art Academy, he founded the ZERO group of artists together with Heinz Mack in 1958, which focussed on light and kinetics in space.
AccessionKemp Collection Foundation
ProvenanceOktober 1967 Willi Kemp (Köln 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) erworben vom Künstler; 2011 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp
Inventory number0.mkp.2011.Kemp123
