INTEGRATION OF LIGHT AND SPACE. Adolf Luther

Since the „ZEROplus“ exhibition was featured at 401contemporary in Berlin in 2009, the gallery has dealt in greater depth with works from the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s and presented them in context with young 21st century artists. This intergenerational dialogue is our guiding principle.

This year’s exhibition is concerned with the issues most important to Adolf Luther (1912 -1990): the integration of light and space. This is manifested impressively in large room installations of concave mirror objects (for example, to mark the occasion of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich).

To coincide with the museum show “ZERO: The international art movement of the 1950’s and ‘60s” (at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin from 20 March to 8 June), the gallery exhibition Adolf Luther: “Integration of Light and Space “ offers deep insight into the work of this ZERO artist.

“By defining a space, a light-space by virtue of an energetic medium, Luther establishes a dynamic concept of space in art. In contrast to the rigid space found in perspective painting and in environmental art, Luther’s space is a flowing space continuum of various interconnected forces: a force field.” (Klaus Honnef, 1971).