Oskar Holweck - Artist Info

About Oskar Holweck

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    As early as 1958, Oskar Holweck had joined the artist group "ZERO", which had recently been set up around Otto Piene and Heinz Mack, and took part in all of the group's important exhibitions. At the same time, the material paper became the artist's primary working medium, whose materiality he began to research and artistically implement in the following decades in search of ever new possibilities and techniques. By tearing (often using a tear grille made of wooden panels and nails), cutting, he created increasingly filigree structures by pressing and folding. Tear and book objects, paper cascades or multilayered adhesive collages were created. Especially with the tracing paper that was increasingly found in his work from the 1970s onwar1.Holweck 1980, quoted in: Oskar Holweck. Museum Sankt Ingbert, 1995, p. 10. 2. Heidi Irmer, in: ZERO. Düsseldorf, museum kunst palast, 2006, p. 295....

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