Picture "Untitled (Hugo's Shadow)" (2020) (Unique piece)
Picture "Untitled (Hugo's Shadow)" (2020) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | ink on cotton | unframed | size 145 x 270 cm
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Picture "Untitled (Hugo's Shadow)" (2020) (Unique piece)
Ink on cotton, 2020. Signed and dated on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 145 x 270 cm.
Producer: ARTES Kunsthandelsgesellschaft mbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hannover, Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
About Peter Heber
Born in Süderbrarup in 1956, the artist Peter Heber studied in Hamburg with the sculptor Stephan Balkenhol, among others, and was in Gotthard Graubner's class in his last two years of study.
Heber mainly creates abstract works in which he not only imitates the diversity of nature, but also reproduces it by playing with the colors themselves and their materiality. He makes the movements, forces and processes of nature his own and thus manages to visualize the buzzing and humming and thus the sounds of nature almost audibly in works such as Bees and incorporates natural light into his works.
In his series of paintings, he uses the material side of color to transcend the pictorial space, turning his canvases into real space. He underlines this experimental approach by using various techniques and a color spectrum that only appears monochrome at first glance.
Peter Heber lives and works in Hanover.
He has had various solo exhibitions in important institutions such as the Mönchehaus Museum of Modern Art in Goslar and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover.
His works can also be found in large public collections such as the painting collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Sprengel Museum and the Deutsche Bank Collection.
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.
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.