Picture "Markus Indian" (1992) (Unique piece)
Picture "Markus Indian" (1992) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | watercolour on paper | framed | size 107 x 77 cm
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Picture "Markus Indian" (1992) (Unique piece)
Watercolour on paper, 1992. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 100 x 70 cm. Size in frame 107 x 77 cm as shown.
About Rainer Fetting
Rainer Fetting, born in 1949 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, is one of the great names in the international contemporary art scene.
Rainer Fetting's sculptural œuvre occupies an ever-larger place in public space. "Everything I do is realistic. And yet every good artistic work has abstraction. The viewer is not fixed in it but rather has space for thought and imagination."
After studying at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Fetting founded the Galerie am Moritzplatz in Berlin in the late 1970s, together with Luciano Castelli, Middendorf, Salomé and Bernd Zimmer. That was the birth of the Neue Wilden. His pictures and sculptures enrich major private and public collections. Today, the artist lives in Berlin and New York.
Paintings with glazing watercolours, that are characterised by their transparency, which let deeper layers and painting surfaces shine through.
Often the paper surface is omitted. This contributes significantly to the effect of the work. The aquarelle painting requires skilful use of colour, as it dries quickly and corrections are almost impossible.
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.