Fisheye Fower. 1983.
Mixed media. Oil, fire and smoke on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled on the reverse. 50 x 60 cm (19.6 x 23.6 in). [AW].

• No other artist beside Otto Piene put such strong focus on fire as a means of creation.
• The unusual process of exposing the canvas to fire and soot is largely subject to chance.
• Fire has an iconic status in Piene.
• Works by the great "ZERO" artist are in important international collections like the Sprengel Museum, Hanover, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and the Center Pompidou, Paris.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Heimeshoff, Essen.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia (acquired rom the above in 1984).

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