Object "Loved Vandal" (2021) (Unique piece)
Object "Loved Vandal" (2021) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | enamel on vending machine | size 77 x 17 cm (h x w)
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Object "Loved Vandal" (2021) (Unique piece)
Enamel on vending machine, 2021. Signed. Height: 77 cm. Width: 17 cm.
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About Van Ray
Born in 1984
No one else manages to fuse Pop Art and Street Art like the Düsseldorf-based Van Ray - one of the youngest artists of Urban Art, whose works impress even an international audience. The "Pochoir" movement, which had its heyday in France in the 1980s, shaped the artist's work and prompted him to combine socially critical messages with graffiti art at the age of 16.
Van Ray's works - all unique pieces - are created on rusty image carriers, often steel, enamel signs or even old metal machines. The artist has perfected the rust technique over several years. His detailed, superimposed stencils show comic figures and influential people from the media world, which he combines with pointed, critical slogans, thus questioning things in a socially critical way.
Incidentally, you can recognise a genuine Van Ray object by his trademark, the pictogram of a duck as his signature.
Contemporary art created from objects that are not normally considered materials from which art is made.
Object art was a means of expression of Cubism, Dadaism and Surrealism, and over time, it has developed various representational techniques up to the present day.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.
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.