Picture "Sample (titanate)" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Sample (titanate)" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on Mylar | in plexiglas box | size 139 x 60 cm
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Picture "Sample (titanate)" (2018) (Unique piece)
Acrylic and spray paint on Mylar, 2018. Signed on the back. Size in plexiglas box: 139 x 60 cm as shown.
About Ruth Campau
Born in 1955, the artist Ruth Campau is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Her art is represented in renowned collections and she has received numerous awards and prizes. In her works, the artist explores the boundaries between painting, sculpture, installation and collage in new ways. Diverse materialities and media are combined and composed into a technoid-looking mashup. For example, Ruth Campau sometimes covers Dibond surfaces with a mirrored mylar foil, which is painted with large brush strokes and acrylic paint. The final painting of the object and the shiny, reflective surface and its metallic texture make the artists' signature visible.
The installations and collages play with the viewer's visual perception and spatial illumination. Translucent, transparent, opaque and reflective surfaces and webs are combined to form aesthetic structures that seem to imitate or dissimulate a canvas. The artist folds, cuts, hangs and lays picture elements and turns them into installation objects in many other ways.
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.