You can’t beat a visit to Amsterdam to rejuvenate your creativity. If spending time at Caffenation doesn’t to the trick (and it will), then step inside the Stedelijk Museum.
The tourists were welcome to the Matisse exhibition, it was ‘ZERO: Let Us Explore the Stars’ which contained unexpected abstract delights. I had no prior knowledge of this movement and its avant grade artists, who made their mark in the 1950s and 60s – and now I want to know much more.
ZERO was named by the artists Heinz Mack and Otto Piene, to indicate a new beginning and a countdown to when rockets take off. Their work explored performance and installation pieces which were entertaining for a public blissfully unaware of multiple-channel television or social media.
ZERO artists also produced three issues of their own magazine, which featured superb typography.
Over stimulated, we left the exhibition in need of a sit down and a beer.
For more on ZERO: Let Us Explore the Stars click here.
Plus, my Instagram feed is worth a visit too.