Picture "depth subways" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "depth subways" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 130 x 110 cm
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Picture "depth subways" (2018) (Unique piece)
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 2018. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 130 x 110 cm.
About Akte One
Akte One (born in 1978, in Berlin) and his crew TLB have been one of the leading graffiti artists in the street art metropolis of Berlin since the early 1990s. At the same time, he began to devote himself to creating works on canvas. His works are still strongly characterised by typography. Akte One transfers the stylistic characteristics of street graffiti onto the canvas in an abstract way. Through the intensive manipulation of the canvas, expressive and gestural application of paint, combined with meticulously executed marker drawings, the artist creates multilayered visual worlds that do not conceal their origins. The fact that humour plays an important role for Akte One is shown by the comic characters who appear regularly in his work.
In the "Innaframes" series, he experiments with a framed picture within the picture, combining typographic elements with figurative depictions in the style of Pop Art.
Akte One is a painter, visual artist and even a successful musician. His work encompasses a broad spectrum of hip-hop culture. His works on canvas are thus part of an entire oeuvre through which the artist constantly carries this culture forward.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art that has been personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolours, drawing, etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there exist 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 type 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.
In the history of arts, the starting point of this trend was the work "Les Meules" (1890/1891) by Claude Monet, in which 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.