Traffic Paint. 1966.
Multiple. White paint over nails on wood.
With a postcard pasted on the reverse, there signed, numbered and typographically inscribed "Kineticism Series Günther Uecker". From a planned edition of 2000 copies that was not fully realized. 17.5 x 12.4 cm (6.8 x 4.8 in).
Published by the Kineticism Press, New York 1966.
Without the plexiglass box, the road marking paint and the original publication of the Kineticism Press by Willoughby Sharp. [JS].

• One of the rare early Uecker multiples with an impressive unique character.
• Programmatically reduced visual language from the year of the ZERO disbandment.
• A nail and white paint: maximum reduction to Uecker's characteristic means of expression.
• The nail as an anonymous, industrial product becomes the bearer of intense spiritual expression.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Düsseldorf.
Galerie Koch Hanover.
Ahlers Collection, Herford (acquired from the above in 2013).

LITERATURE: Dorothea und Martin van der Koelen (eds.), Günther Uecker. Opus Liber. Verzeichnis der Bibliophilen Bücher und Werke 1960-2005, edited by Britta Julia Dombrowe, Mainz 2007, p. 46, L 6602 (illustrated, different copy).
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Britta Julia Dombrowe, Redepflicht und Schweigefluss. Zur Gestalt, Bedeutung und Funktion von Günther Ueckers Bibliophilen Werken (PhD thesis. Cologne 2006), Mainz 2006, p.200.
ZERO und Nouveau Réalisme. Die Befragung der Wirklichkeit, Foundation Ahlers Pro Arte, February 26 - June 26, 2016, p. 85 (illu.).

In good condition. The lower edge shows a horizontal pressure mark in the white color as a result of the process of making, as well as a small, cracked color blister in the left, here and at the edge of the nail head with a tiny loss of color. Minimally unfresh in places.
The condition report was prepared in daylight and with the aid of a UV light source to the best of our knowledge and belief.