Picture "urban nature II" (2024) (Unique piece)
Picture "urban nature II" (2024) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | acrylic on canvas | unframed | size 120 x 110 cm
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Picture "urban nature II" (2024) (Unique piece)
Acrylic on canvas, 2024, signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 120 x 110 cm.
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About Christian Awe
Working in tune with the times - this is how the artist Christian Awe, who was born in 1978 and lives and works in Berlin, creates works of the most diverse sizes, full of emotional intensity. In the meantime, the former student of the Berlin University of the Arts has achieved international success, to which solo exhibitions in Istanbul, Perm (Russia) and Miami bear witness. He has also taught at Princeton and Yale University.
His well-considered compositions delight with their powerful colourfulness and fascinate with their complex surface structure. The artist creates these through the use of different materials such as acrylic paint, ink, and varnish as well as through the combination of classical painting, drawing and spraying techniques. Layer by layer, Awe works out the unmistakable effect of his artworks, repeatedly removing and reapplying isolated sections of the picture.
The resulting impression of randomness in his pictures on canvas, paper and the facades of houses reveals an engagement with the gestural painting after 1945. Thus, these works establish a new and quite unique type of Abstract Expressionism.
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.
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.