Picture "Substance 8" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Substance 8" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 155 x 230 cm
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Picture "Substance 8" (2018) (Unique piece)
"Substance 8" belongs to a cycle of works in which Athenstaedt varies similar motifs in different colours. In this painting, the artist creates a cloudy, billowing surface that appears very powerful due to the effects of colour and focus. The picture evokes a wide variety of associations, but it remains unclear until the end whether there is a concrete material reference. You can lose yourself in this fascinating picture in a mystical and subjective way, bordering on the psychedelic.
Oil on canvas, 2018. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 155 x 230 cm.
About Marie Athenstaedt
Marie Athenstaedt (born in 1988 in Dresden) is a graduate of the HfBk Dresden and studied under Prof. Christian Macketanz until 2014.
For her paintings, Athenstaedt takes nature as her model. Her large-format paintings are only superficially non-objective and abstract. The artist transfers sky formations, light and natural phenomena, and the colours of her surroundings into an expressive, dreamlike painting that almost immerses the viewer in the pictures.
Marie Athenstaedt received a scholarship from the Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen, Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, in 2017 and a Hegenbarth scholarship in 2015. She lives and works in Leipzig.
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.