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1959 · rif. 48782 — Antwerp.: Hessenhuis Anvers. 1959. Original stapled paper covers half-sized front cover showing the aluminated plate by Heinz Mack as published. Slight creasing to cover otherwise a very good copy. Square 4to. 212 x 214 mm. Introduction in Dutch and French by Marc Cammewaert curator of the show. Text in French by Bathazar on Bury. The very early and rare document on the Zero Group and New Realism together with the invitation to the vernissage. This legendary exhibition was held at the Hessenhuis Antwerp March 21 - May 3 1959 the vernissage was on 21st March.Contributing artists were Breer Pol Bury Yves Klein Heinz Mack Mari Bruno Munari Necker Dieter Rot Soto Daniel Spoerri Jean Tinguely and Van Hoeydonck.The catalogue contains 2 black and white reproductions of works by Mack; Otto Piene - text in German French English and 1 reproduction of the work 'reines Licht' Pure Light; Pol Bury - two lacerated blank plates; Dieter Rot - 'Carré dépliable' Unfoldable Square originally published in No.2 of the Spoerri's artist magazine 'Material'; Emmett Williams - 'Progression' folding sheet poem to be published in the forthcoming issue No.3 of 'Material'; P. Van Hoeydonck - a text by Maurits Blicke. Tinguely's contribution is the reproduction of his manifesto 'Für Statik' For Statics which he had dropped just a week before the opening of this show March 14th from an airplane on Düsseldorf Germany. Hessenhuis Anvers. unknown