Picture "462_008" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "462_008" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | mixed media | unframed | size 130 x 100 cm
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Picture "462_008" (2022) (Unique piece)
Silicone through grid, 2022. signed and dated. Motif size/format 130 x 100 cm.
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About Markus Maier
“Markus Maier's paintings cannot be deciphered from a distance. You have to approach them. Then it becomes clear that the works are unique. They are an expression of our time because they have nothing other than themselves as their content and are prime examples of work committed to concrete art.”
(Burkhard Leismann, Director of the Ahlen Art Museum)
Markus Maier (born 1964 in Aalen) designs his pictures from the back. He pushes the specially composed color substance through the woven picture surface. It emerges filtered on the side of the picture, inverted for the artist and always surprising in the concrete view, even if Markus Maier intends the picture through the amount of color and pressure.
In this way, he demands a co-design from the material, which he can influence but ultimately cannot fully control in the realization. During the months-long drying process, in which the picture changes in nuances, he allows the paint to have a concrete, uninfluenced influence.
This design technique results in textile-like reliefs with soft contours and floral surfaces. The paintings have the mysterious momentary quality of a suddenly fixed movement.
Markus Maier studied architecture at the FH Heidelberg. He has won several prizes for his “reciprocal painting”.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world 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.