Picture object "Magnetic Summer" (Unique piece)
Picture object "Magnetic Summer" (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | stencil on wooden door | size 190 x 73 cm
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Picture object "Magnetic Summer" (Unique piece)
Stencil on a wooden door. Signed. Size 190 x 73 cm.
Producer: ARTES Kunsthandelsgesellschaft mbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
About L.E.T.
Ever since the release of the film "Exit Through the Gift Shop" about the English artist Banksy, everybody knows what street art is. The Düsseldorf artist L.E.T. - the abbreviation stands for "Les Enfants Terribles" - with French-German roots has been working in the streets for many years.
Originally, he was active in the graffiti scene, but at the beginning of the 90s, he switched to street art. His art can be seen on the streets - in many cities around the world. Inspired by left-wing political stencils of the Cuban revolution, he adopted this technique for his own work. L.E.T. experiments with spray-painted texts and pictures on posters or walls. In addition to political content, his humorous stencils, series graphics and drawings on paper, canvas, cardboard, old wood, or metal often take up familiar motifs, which he alienates and places in a new context.
After his first commissions for skate and surfboard companies, his work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the USA, Japan, and Europe since 2000. Recently, an exhibition of L.E.T. in Norway also sold out within half an hour.
A one-of-a-kind or unique piece is a work of art personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.