Picture "THE SELF (AFTER COURBET)" (2014) (Unique piece)
Picture "THE SELF (AFTER COURBET)" (2014) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 100 x 80 cm
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Picture "THE SELF (AFTER COURBET)" (2014) (Unique piece)
Acrylic and liquid chalk on canvas, 2014. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 80 x 100 cm.
About Petra von Kazinyan
Petra von Kazinyan is one of our younger artists. Her work ranges between art history and the present, between figuration and abstraction. She deals closely with the theme of identity in a post-digital, globalised world.
Von Kazinyan's most recent work, following international appearances, was exhibited at the Venice Biennale di Venezia in 2019 and 2022.
She works with famous motifs of the Old Masters but adds elements of disruption to her paintings. These seem to want to anonymise the figures, which are after all, quite familiar, and objectify their bodies in the process, thus robbing them of their identity. And at the same time, these abstract interventions in the form of thick brushstrokes or net structures laid over them expand their level of interpretation.
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.