Picture "Untitled (ref.: Bezzo)" (1990) (Unique piece)
Picture "Untitled (ref.: Bezzo)" (1990) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media | framed | size 89 x 114 cm
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Picture "Untitled (ref.: Bezzo)" (1990) (Unique piece)
This drawing from 1990 testifies to Per Kirkeby's joy in experimenting with materials and techniques and, at the same time, captivates with its sensual, energetic composition of bright colours and abrupt ductus, which lends the work an almost dramatic and poetic character.
Wax crayon, pastel, gouache, charcoal, ink and graphite, 1990. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 78.7 x 104 cm. Size in frame 72 x 107 cm as shown.
About Per Kirkeby
1938-2018
Per Kirkeby, born in Copenhagen in 1938, was one of the most exposed painters and sculptors of the present day. Performances with Beuys and Immendorf, among others, top-class art prizes and important exhibitions worldwide document his success.
The artist's graphic works are closely related to his sculptural activity. Kirkeby strove for the real picture that breaks all boundaries. The boundaries between shape and colour are blurred, and colour as a light-bearing substance in its mutability turns into shape. Through its representation, the completed picture reveals its meaning-giving content.
At the end of each creative phase, the graphic becomes the preferred, liberating form of expression. It is the "unpainted" that creates sensations in the viewer and sets no limits to the imagination.
Per Kirkeby worked in Copenhagen, Laeslo and Karlsruhe, where he was a teacher at the Art Academy in 1978.
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.
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.