Gunther Uecker

Gunther Uecker, born in 1930, member of the artists' group ZERO and mastermind of the action on the banks of the river Rhine, demonstrated frequently throughout these years. Art and life, art and politics, art and ecstasy - it was all supposed to become one in the sixties and early seventies, and Uecker, brother-in-law of Yves Klein, the French happening artist who painted the brilliant blue canvases, was right in the middle of the scene. The movement wanted to achieve something new and was little impressed by bourgeois criteria.