Fondation Le Corbusier Presents A Solo Exhibition By Heinz Mack At Maison La Roche In Paris

On View until December 20, 2025

Almine Rech and Fondation Le Corbusier are pleased to present Heinz Mack's solo exhibition at Maison La Roche in Paris, on view from October 21 – December 20, 2025.

Heinz Mack (born in Lollar, 1931) is one of the primary figures of the art of the second half of the 20th century as he is considered to be a radical and revolutionary artist, who from the 1950s to today has continued to renew his vision and expressivity. The works exhibited at Maison La Roche, architectural icon by Le Corbusier where light itself plays a highly significant role in redefining the coordinates of spaces and volumes, are dated between 1995 and 2021, explore the artist’s investigation and redefinition of the relationship between light, color, structure, and space.

Mack’s lifelong artistic production has always been investigating the fundamental role that light plays as a constitutive factor of vision, creating an impressive body of work that has radically changed the course of contemporary art. The dialogue between light and colour in relation to structure, vibration, and rhythm represents the central factor of the continuation and metamorphosis of Mack’s work. In these variations in the artist’ oeuvre, light is expressed in its purity as transformation of surfaces and spaces.

The attention in the exhibition is particularly driven towards Mack’s works from most recent decades, particularly the pure colors of the “Chromatische Konstellationen” (chromatic constellations), whose stratification, juxtaposition, and gradation give to the surface of the canvas new and radiant tonal harmonies. It is from the liminal zone of colour, between light and dark, which Mack considers to be the germinal place of vision, that transition from black and white to colour matured in 1991, when the artist focused on new pictorial work that translates his intuitions for redefining surface and space into an unprecedented and surprising chromatic key.

Purity, together with light and polychromy, is another keyword linking directly Mack’s poetic world with Le Corbusier’s Modern Architecture: focusing on the dialectic of pure colors, Mack’s Chromatische Konstellationen (chromatic constellations), layered in transparency or juxtaposed in combination, counterpoint, or gradation, modulate and articulate the spatiality of the surface in new, radiant harmonies. Here we find the dynamic and active relationship between color, light, structure, and space that constitutes the conceptual core of these extraordinary structures of energy, both chromatic and physical.

- Francesca Pola, art historian, critic, and curator