ZERO has never stopped.

ZERO goes on forever. Otto Piene, 2014

OTTO PIENE

Exhibiton 8 May 19 June 2015

4CERAMIC

Goldbarren, 2014Glaze and fire gold on clay,

15 x 7,9 x 1,2 in

Platinbarren, 2014Glaze and platinum on clay,

15 x 7,9 x 1,2 in

5Fire, earth and metal: Otto Pienes artistic cosmos elemen-tary forces are at work. His wall reliefs and sculptures out of clay develop an irritating appeal due to the subtle mixture of archaic and modern elements.

His raster pictures in gold and platinum document his joy of experimenting and his delight in technic, which stayed with him all his life.

Kleiner Regenbogen, 2014Glaze and fire gold / platinum on clay,

14,6 x 18,1 x 2,4 in

65-Tage-Woche, 2012

glaze and fire gold on clay, 29,5 x 36,6 x 2,8 in

7When I Behold, 2013

glaze, platinum and diverse minerals on clay, 29,5 x 36,6 x 2,8 in

8Rastersonne, 2009 glaze and fire gold on clay, 18,9 in,

serial unique copy, brand signature, numbered Ex 34/99

9Rastermond, 2009 glaze and platinum on clay, 18,9 in,

serial unique copy, brand signature, numbered Ex 34/99

The art, that I am representing, is based on the idea of transmission of energy.

Otto Piene

10Rasterei, 2011

glaze and fire gold on clay, 29,9 x 29,9 x 1,8 in

11Rasterarbeit, 2010

glaze and platinum on clay, 31,9 x 31,9 x 2 in

12Serie Halbkreisel, 2009

glaze and platinum on clay, 10,6 x 10,6 x 0,8 in

Otto Piene who can be seen here in the process of signing certificates began working with clay in 2006.In his ceramics he maintains his iconic puristic work stile he de-veloped in his early raster pictu-res. For that he dropped glaze on clay plates through different grid screens. Not only the posi-tioning of the drops, but their more or less leveled features and their runny appearance shape his works.

13

Serie Halbkreisel, 2009Ein bisschen Pollock, 2009

glaze and platinum on clay, 10,6 x 10,6 x 0,8 in

14Serie Strange Fish, 2009

glaze and platinum on clay, 10,6 x 10,6 x 0,8 in

15O.P.-Ton, 2011

fired clay, unglazed, 20,9 x 24,8 x 4 in

16

Otto Piene and Dresden China.

As part of the 300th anniversary celebrations of the porcelain manufacture Meissen the artist developed a number of unique pieces from the famous porcelain.

From the start he loved working with ceramics. Because of the great heat things emerge, that couldnt have been predicted. That is beautiful.

17

Mural relief Wirbel Dreifach, 2011glaze, porcelain mass on unglazed porcelain, 29,5 x 52 x 0,8 in,

one of nine unique copies

18Pentagon Fnferweide, 2009

glaze and platinum on clay, 41,3 x 39,4 x 15,4 in

19Minotaurus im Pentagon Sterntaler, 2006

glaze and fire gold on clay, 18,5 x 18,5 x 7,5 in

20Carved (3), 2010

fired clay with a glazure of different colors, 29,5 x 29,5 x 2,4 in

21Spuren I, 2012

fired clay, unglazed, diptych, ca. 35,4 x 35,4 x 1,6 in

22Blot-American Indian, 2009-11

ceramic with a glazure of different colors, 38,2 x 38,2 x 2 in

23Heart of Sorrow, 2009

ceramic with a glazure of different colors, 39,4 x 39,4 in

24Magma, 2006

oil / smoke on canvas, 31,5 x 59 in

25

From fire and smoke evolved the masterpieces of Otto Piene. To create his smoke-pictures Piene blackened the canvas and burned the paint, until it all most turned to carbon.

Can

vas

26

Wate

rcolo

r

Wig and Gotee, 1977 / 78watercolor on board, 59 x 39,4 in

27Asparagus, 1979

watercolor on board, 59 x 39,4 in

28Cabbage, 1977 / 78

watercolor on board, 59 x 39,4 in

29Bubble, 1978 / 79

watercolor on board, 59 x 39,4 in

30Yelllow, 1974

watercolor on board, 39,4 x 31,5 in

31Couldlike, 1974

watercolor on board, 39,4 x 31,5 in

32

In 2001 Otto Piene has created a series of gouache paintings, where he explored the artistic possibilities of fire.

As foundation for these excep-tional paintings he used works form an earlier series of silks-creen paintings on handmade paper.

The traces of smoke and the individual title form unique piece.

33

34Blauer Taucher, 2001

watercolor / fire / soot / silkscreen on laid paper, 27,6 x 39,4 in

35Tunnel, 2001

watercolor / fire / soot / silkscreen on laid paper, 27,6 x 39,4 in

36Grnes Licht, 2001

watercolor / fire / soot / silkscreen on laid paper, 27,6 x 39,4 in

37Konzentrat, 2001

watercolor / fire / soot / silkscreen on laid paper, 27,6 x 39,4 in

38O.T., 1974

graphit on board, 31,5 x 39,4 in

39

Dra

win

gs

Dynamic and movement are the characteristic elements of his large scale, figurative drawings from the early 1970ies.

Rare and unique these excep-tional pictures represent the versatility of the modern classic.

40O.T., 1974

graphit on board, 59 x 39,4 in

41O.T., 1974

graphit on board, 59 x 39,4 in

42O.T., 1975

graphit on board, 59 x 39,4 in

43O.T., 1976

graphit on board, 39,4 x 31,5 in

44

Otto PieneBiography

1928 born on April 18 in Laasphe in the German region of Westphalia

1948 - 1950 Academy of Art, Munich

1950 - 1953 Academy of Art, Dsseldorf

1951 - 1964 Lecturer at the Fashion Institute in Dsseldorf

1953 - 1957 Studying philosophy at the University of Cologne

1957 - 1966 ZERO-exhibitions und ZERO-magazines, together with Heinz Mack and Gnther Uecker

1957 First light ballet

1959 First smoke pictures and fire paintings

1960 First mechanized and programmable light sculptures

1962 - 1969 Environments in which people, light, fire and smoke, light and helium sculptures,

sound and text are integrated

1964 Visiting professorship at the University of Pennsylvania

since 1964 Stadttheater Bonn: Orders for art in architecture, and others

1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Piene created the sky work Olympic Rainbow

1994 Domelight of the Schadow-arcades, Dsseldorf

since 1968 Working with Sky Art projects with balloons an light emitters at the Center for Advanced

Visual Studies (C.A.V.S.) des Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.),

seit 1974 as director

1989 - 1990 Member of the founding board of the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne

1996 Sculpture Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

2008 Price of the Cultural Foundation of Visual Arts Dortmund

2014 Piene lived and worked in Groton/Massachusetts, Boston and in Dsseldorf.

He died on July 17, 2014 in Berlin

45

The Museum of Modern Art

New York City, NY, USA

National Galerie

Berlin, Germany

Stedelijk Museum

Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Kunsthaus Zrich

Zurich, Switzerland

Muse National dArt Moderne,

Centre George Pompidou,

Paris, France

Albertina

Vienna, Austria

Muses Royaux des Beaux Arts

Brussels, Belgium

Selected public and private Collections

The National Museum of Modern Art

Tokyo, Japan

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York City, NY, USA

Museum Ludwig

Cologne, Germany

Guggenheim Museum

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Collection Lenz Schnberg

Salzburg, Austria

Collection Renate Bhmer-Haberland

Munich, Germany

Otto Pienes work is included in more than

200 museums and public collections.