
Weisses Feld
1972
Günther Uecker's 'Weisses Feld' (1972) features painted nails arranged on cotton fabric mounted on panel, creating a tactile textured surface. The work exemplifies the artist's kinetic and minimalist approach to creating visual and spatial effects.
- Medium
- painted nails and cotton fabric mounted on panel
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Sotheby'sView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
Art Contemporain Evening Sale
June 3, 2021
Estimate: $800,000 to $1,200,000
Lot 104
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Heinz Mack
German · b. 1931

As a co-founder of the ZERO group alongside Uecker, Mack similarly creates monochrome relief surfaces using repetitive industrial or elemental materials that generate vibrating light effects and tactile texture. His work shares the same minimalist kinetic energy and white tonal palette found in Weisses Feld.

Piero Manzoni
Italian · b. 1933

Manzoni pursued radical monochrome abstraction through his Achromes series, using unconventional materials like kaolin soaked canvas and cotton wool to create pure white textured surfaces with strong tactile and relief qualities. This directly parallels Uecker's use of nails and fabric to produce a visually unified yet physically complex white field.

Lucio Fontana
Italian · b. 1899

Fontana's Concetto Spaziale works transform the monochrome painted canvas into a three dimensional spatial object through punctures and cuts, creating rhythmic surface interventions that share a conceptual kinship with Uecker's nail arrangements on fabric. Both artists use repeated physical actions on white surfaces to produce works that exist between painting and sculpture.
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