Picture "Play of Colours V" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Play of Colours V" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | acrylic on paper | framed | size 85.5 x 65.5 cm
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Picture "Play of Colours V" (2018) (Unique piece)
Acrylic on paper, 2018. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 76 x 56 cm. Size in frame 85.5 x 65.5 cm as shown.
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 the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western 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 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.