. Nails, aluminum, and metallic paint over burlap on wood, rotating. Signed, dated, and with a direction arrow on the reverse. 60 x 60 x 18 cm. . [JS].
- A unique work in metallic gray from the pinnacle of the “ZERO” period. - The second work of the same title, “Taktile Struktur Rotierend” (1961), is part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. - Light, movement, space: A captivating presentation of a rotating, three-dimensional interplay of light, shadow, and form. - 1961: Uecker’s participation in the legendary “ZERO” exhibition at Alfred Schmela’s famous Düsseldorf avant-garde gallery. - A radical new beginning for the European avant-garde: Together with Manzoni and Fontana, Uecker participated in the legendary exhibition “Nul 62” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1962.
• Rigidity, power, and poetry: Uecker transforms the rigidity of the material and the force of its creation into aesthetics full of sensuality.
This work is registered in the Uecker Archive under the number GU.61.108 and is earmarked for inclusion in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Uecker’s works.
LITERATURE: See Dieter Honisch, *Uecker*, Stuttgart 1983, CR no. 254 (the work of the same title in the Guggenheim Collection, Venice, https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/5119). Dorotheum, Zeitgenössische Kunst / Contemporary Art, Thursday, November 29, 2012, cat. no. 1407 (illustrated) See Angelica Zander Rudenstine, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, New York 1985, p. 727, cat. no. 173 (on the work in the Guggenheim Collection).

Private collection, Düsseldorf (until 2010) Private collection, Germany (until 2012, Dorotheum) Private collection, Baden-Baden (from the above) Private collection, Switzerland (since 2016, from the above)

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