Picture "Reflection Magenta" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "Reflection Magenta" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | titled | oil on canvas | unframed | size 170 x 130 cm
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Picture "Reflection Magenta" (2023) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2023. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 170 x 130 cm as shown.
About Irina und Marina Fabrizius
She is me, and I am her.
The works of the two artists Irina and Marina Fabrizius are in great demand by collectors. The exhibitions are always sold out, and the waiting times for one of their pictures are long.
"Unzer_trennlich" (the German adjective "unzertrennlich" means "inseparable") was the title of an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel about the two twin artists Irina and Marina Fabrizius (born in 1981), who always create their art together, complementing each other. The two master students of Herbert Brandl already held their final presentation at the Düsseldorf Art Academy together, an absolute novelty in the history of the academy.
Their pictures deal with the theme of lines of light and circles of light. They want to paint light. Their pictures are supposed to glow. For years they have been working on how to achieve this with oil paints and have perfected the glazing technique. Layer by layer they repeatedly apply a thin semi-transparent layer of paint, sometimes more than 20 times.
Their model is the colour field painter Mark Rothko. Their technique is demanding and elaborate. One person alone would not be able to realise the large sizes. Nevertheless, the two artists need up to half a year to complete a picture.
Today, the Fabrizius twins are among the most successful newcomers in the art market. The German broadcaster WDR, ARD and the BBC recently reported on the unusual painters. Their abstract glaze paintings are now in demand worldwide. Often the pictures are sold long before the last brushstroke is done.
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.