ZERO
[Rivista]
Vol. 3 Bis Oo Dynamo
Luogo: Düsseldorf
Editore: Heinz Mack und Otto Piene
Stampatore: N. D.
Anno: 1961
Legatura: brossura cartonata
Dimensioni: 21 x 20 cm
Pagine: oltre 300 pp.
Descrizione: Terzo e ultimo numero della rivista curata da Otto Piene e Heinz Mack. Copertina tipografica con il titolo della testata stampato in bianco al centro della pagina su fondo nero. Questo numero contiene due interventi originali: le pagine 57/58 sono state parzialmente strappate e il margine è bruciato, le pag. 63/64, sono state quasi interamente strappate e resta solo un frammento (tutte le copie da noi confrontate hanno simili interventi ma in pagine differenti), all'ultima pagina del volume sono incollati due piccoli multipli: uno di Daniel Spoerri (un cerino) e uno di Jean Tinguely (un seme). Il volume contiene oltre 200 immagini in bianco e nero e a piena pagina con opere pittoriche, disegni e ritratti fotografici di Piero Manzoni, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jean Tinguely, Otto Piene, Heinz Mack, Daniel Spoerri, Arman, Piero Dorazio, Soto, Enrico Castellani, Günther Uecker, Dieter Rot, Pol Bury, Francesco Lo Savio, Manfred Kage, Arnulf Rainer e altri.
Bibliografia: Gwen Allen, Artists' magazine, Cambridge - London, The MIT Press, 2011, pay. 312 con illustrazione
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The third issue of Zero, a more substantial book-sizec volume, was characterized by a new kind typographycal experimentation, unaugurating a shift in the approach to the magazine page, from secondary document to primary site of artistic activity. It chronicled Jean Tinguely's “Homage to New York” and included a reprint of the front page of Klein's self-published “Dimanche”, reproducing his “Leap into the Void" (1960). It also contained several pages of photographs arranged in a grid that juxtaposed works by the Zero group alongside images of a water tower, night sky, sand dunes, and others phenomena, suggesting a realm in which works of art might interact with natural and technological forms. Most innovative of all were several contributions that explored the spatiotemporal form to the magazine itself: klein published one article that ends mid sentence where the page is burnt, and another that ceased with the page being torn; Tinguely pasted an actual sun flower send to the page, encouraging the reader to plant it soil; and Daniel Spoerri attached a book of matches to the page, accompanied by “pyromaniac instructions” to burn the entire magazine. Zero 3 also contained a series of pages that count down from 10 to 1, ending with the word “zero” pictured as a rocket blasting off. According to Piene, the magazine ended because “its mission had been fulfilled”. [Gwen Allen, Artists' magazine, Cambridge - London, The MIT Press, 2011, pay. 312 con illustrazione]