Picture "Birgitt" (1988) (Unique piece)

Picture "Birgitt" (1988) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil and chalk on paper | framed | size 110 x 80 cm
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Picture "Birgitt" (1988) (Unique piece)
Birgitt, a close friend and lover of Luciano Castelli, inspired him to create numerous expressive portraits during his time in Berlin.
Oil and chalk on paper, 1988, signed. Motif size/sheet size 100 x 70 cm. Size in frame 110 x 80 cm as shown.
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About Luciano Castelli
Der 1951 in Luzern in der Schweiz geborene Luciano Castelli wurde von Harald Szeemann, dem künstlerischen Leiter der documenta 5, entdeckt, der ihn dazu bewog, 1972 in Kassel auszustellen.
In den späten 1970er- und in den 1980er-Jahren gehörte Castelli zur Künstlergruppe der "Neuen Wilden", die in der Produzentengalerie am Moritzplatz in Westberlin arbeiteten.
Die Künstler um Salomé, Helmut Middendorf, Rainer Fetting, Bernd Zimmer und Luciano Castelli wurden durch ihre expressiven, gestischen Bilder weltweit bekannt. Der Künstler arbeitet in verschiedenen Medien wie Malerei, Fotografie, Video, Skulptur und Musik.
Luciano Castelli lebt und arbeitet in Paris, Berlin und in der Toskana.
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.