It was in 1951 that the artist discovered abstract art while visiting West Berlin. Ten years later, he joined ZERO with Heinz Mack and Otto Piene who wrote the manifesto in Der Neue Idealismus: "ZERO is silence, ZERO is beginning, ZERO is round, ZERO spins..." are the most striking words. With his brother-in-law Yves Klein, he shared a taste for the monochrome and the primacy of the mind over the hand. Virginal and absolute, his works are coated in white, in a vibrant tribute to Malevitch. "White can be perceived as a prayer, the words of spiritual experience," says the painter, who has always been fascinated by Eastern philosophies. By summoning the "zero degree of art", Günther Uecker gradually takes us towards an extrasensory perception where the secret space of the painting is revealed to our meditation."