MACK, HEINZ
1931 Lollar
Title: Sahara-Edition.
Subtitle: Complete series based on the 13 stations of the Sahara project first published in 1961.
Date: 1972-1975.
Technique: Silkscreen and iridescent print on thin card. Partly collaged with different materials including embossed aluminium foil, plastic mesh, nylon net, wires, sand, plexiglass pane.
Depiction Size: 80 x 100cm resp. 100 x 80cm.
Notation: . Signed and numbered.
Frame: Each display case.
From an edition of 130 copies in total. The works presented here have different copy numbers.
Provenance:
- Private collection, North Germany
Literature:
- Fulda-Kuhn, Anette (ed.): Mack - Druckgraphik und Multiples, Stuttgart 1990, cat. rais. no. 92 I - 92 XIII, ill. 208-215
- The complete series is rarely offered on the auction market
- Mack's Sahara Project from 1968 is one of the most spectacular Land Art projects and is wonderfully illustrated in this edition
- The Sahara Project manifests the principle of his artistic work of using light as a creative medium.