Picture "White Old Sun" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "White Old Sun" (2022) (Unique piece)
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serial unique piece | signed | ceramic | size 40 x 40 cm
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Picture "White Old Sun" (2022) (Unique piece)
Polished ceramic, 2022. Signed. Serial unique piece (3 copies in total). Size in object frame 40 x 40 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany Email: info@arsmundi.de
About Mandy Wiesener
Mandy Wiesener, an artist living in Frankfurt am Main, Germany deals with decontextualisation in her work. For this purpose, she is constantly on the lookout for mundane everyday objects, which she tears out of their original context and puts to a new purpose.
The artist carefully makes each individual object of her ceramic works by hand. First, she roughly sanded them. Afterwards, she meticulously polished them under a magnifying glass, and if they are presented in a shadow gap frame, she additionally varnishes them with car paint.
In order to intensify the play of light and shadow and to increase tension and dynamics, all objects are also produced at different angles of inclination.
By deliberately dispensing with colour, the solitary objects merge into a new compositional unity. The artist wants to provide the viewer with the opportunity to escape this sensory overload, away from the rush of colours and the flood of digital images and give them a moment of stillness and calm - in order to then experience the power, fascination, and beauty of structured, geometric forms. The ZERO movement, concrete art, serves as inspiration and a creative force.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also the so-called "serial unique pieces". They present a series of works with the same colour, motif and technique, manually prepared by the same artist. The serial unique pieces are rooted in "serial art", a genre of modern art that aims to create an aesthetic effect through series, repetitions, and variations of the same objects or themes or a system of constant and variable elements or principles.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, for the first time, a series was created that went beyond a mere group of works. The other artists, who addressed to the serial art, include Claude Monet, Piet Mondrian and above all Gerhard Richter.