Picture "Broadcasting Centre Block D Primary 2" (2017) (Unique piece)
Picture "Broadcasting Centre Block D Primary 2" (2017) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 70 x 135 cm
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Picture "Broadcasting Centre Block D Primary 2" (2017) (Unique piece)
Acrylic, spray paint and marker on canvas, 2017. Signed on the back. Size stretched on stretcher frame 70 x 135 cm.
About Cren
Ever since Michel Pietsch (born in 1970 in Lehrte, Germany) first took up a spray can under his alias Cren in 1989, writing has been the origin and basis of his artistic work. Based on his experiences as a graffiti painter, Cren considers writing as the central pillar of communication and as an essential everyday carrier of information. With his colour-intensive works, which range from graffiti to abstract painting, Cren has been extremely successful for years. He has already painted walls in more than 4 countries and on three continents with his lettering.
Cren breaks the established rules of typography by splitting the typeface into its individual letters and then reconstructing them as a whole.
The letters as the basis of the work are completed with graphic, expressionist or even figurative elements to form the final arrangement. The final works invite the viewer to question the first impression and to engage more intensively with the letters beneath them.
Cren works in a studio in Berlin-Köpenick. His works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Paris, Barcelona, Cologne, Berlin and other places. Together with Akte One, Cren designed a space for the street art project "The Haus" in Berlin.
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.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.