Sculpture "HIGH SPACE DREAMER" (2018) (Unique piece)
Sculpture "HIGH SPACE DREAMER" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | wood | height 234 cm
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Sculpture "HIGH SPACE DREAMER" (2018) (Unique piece)
Sculpture made of wood (sweet chestnut) patinated, 2018. Signed. Height: 234 cm.
About Alexander Heil
Alexander Heil, born in 1970 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, award winner of the Wilfried Koch Foundation, is represented at national and international exhibitions. The artist lives and works in Berlin and the wildest valley of Italian-speaking Switzerland. He draws his inspiration from this area of tension and thus creates his powerful sculptures.
The core themes of his work are movement and transience. With his abstracted figures, he represents the moment of individual points of existence in their essence. His abstract works always contain a pulsating movement within themselves, and at the same time, reflect processes of transience.
The haptics of the material and the optical alienation of the surfaces play an essential role in his works. Thus, bronze appears like wood, and wood seems like metal; the special patination of the wood is the result of a lengthy process that the artist keeps a secret.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, in bronze casting a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.
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.