ZAAZ

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ZAAZ booklets, 1966, Berlin

ZAAZ was an art-theoretical journal of the working group of Berlin artists of the same name, which dealt with constructivist art in theory and practice and appeared in seven issues from January to August 1966.

ZAAZ magazine

The magazine was a lively field for experimentation by the ZAAZ working group , which was dedicated to concrete constructivist art and wanted to eliminate everything emotional and individual by applying the laws of mathematics and logic. The magazine dealt with reproductions of images for the visualization of syntactic structures, typography , caricature , prose and concrete poetry . The individual issues were provided with black-and-white images, all of which were originally 44 × 44 cm in size.

The name of the magazine sounds with the first two letters and the last letter of the alphabet, as if it were synthetically produced, which it probably is: ZAAZ.

The seven issues of the ZAAZ magazine appeared monthly from January to August 1966 and were initially printed in an edition of 1,500, later 500 copies. Although "ZAAZ" was subscribed to by many museums and copperplate engravings - also internationally - with the correct understanding that a new way of direct art publication was available here - the magazine was soon discontinued due to lack of money.

Working group ZAAZ

The magazine was published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft ZAAZ, an association of constructivist artists, which in 1966 consisted of the members Manfred Graef, Adelheid Graef, Joachim Ickrath , Gabriele Ickrath, Friedemann Rehm and Francoise Rehm in Berlin. Together they designed and financed the magazine ZAAZ, which dealt with constructivist art in theory and practice. Contributions from all employees were found in every issue. Each edition was signed jointly and not - as usual - every single work.

Receptions

Heinz Ohff , 1966: “ZAAZ is not a magazine, although the magazine looks like this, with a colored cover, title and back clips. ZAAZ is more like a continuously published exhibition, whereby the individual artist resigns. …… The catchphrase " Op-Art " has become established for the geometrically founded graphics that they maintain , optical art. "

Web links

literature

  • Heinz Ohff: Search for order and clarity - On the work of the Berlin group "ZAAZ" , Der Tagesspiegel , July 21, 1966
  • Heinz Ohff: Gallery of New Arts . Bertelsmann Kunstverlag, Gütersloh 1971, p. 161

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bülent Gündüz: Illusions from Color , Saarbrücker Zeitung , September 18, 2018
  2. ^ Heinz Ohff, Search for Order and Clarity - On the work of the Berlin group "ZAAZ" , Der Tagesspiegel , Berlin, July 21, 1966
  3. ↑ ZAAZ working group, press release , May 14, 1966 (PDF file)