CHRISTIAN MEGERT

BIOGRAPHY

Christian Megert (b. 1936) is a Swiss visual artist and a member of the German 1960’s Group Zero, who greatly expanded key influences of the movement in Switzerland both through his own work and academic teaching. At the end of the 1950s he began incorporating mirrors as his main medium to experiment with the reflective effects of light, creating illusionary constructed environments and dynamic art spaces challenging the viewer’s perspective and sensation of continuity and infinity. The diverse properties of mirrors allowed Megert to explore the themes of the multiplicity of reflection, luminosity, translucency, and aspects of imagefragmentation and transformation of one’s immediate visual surroundings.

Lightbox

Lightbox, 1978

Wood, mirror, transparent mirror,

neon tubes

155 x 155 x 14 cm / 61 x 61 x 5½ in

Lightbox

Lightbox, 1978

Wood, mirror, transparent mirror,

neon tubes

155 x 155 x 14 cm / 61 x 61 x 5½ in