Picture "Swimmer (diagonally)" (2018) (Unique piece)
Picture "Swimmer (diagonally)" (2018) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | framed | size 122.5 x 142.5 cm
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Picture "Swimmer (diagonally)" (2018) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2018. Signed. Size in frame 122.5 x 142.5 cm as shown.
About Simone Opdahl
"It is impulses from nature that touch me, that I process in the painting process and locate in the pictorial space. What happens during painting: corrections, overpainting, destruction, and renewal, remains a witness in the picture. I prefer a spontaneous way of painting, intentionally leaving traces that remain visible like quotations of a permanent process (...)."
Simone Opdahl paints landscapes that are on the border of abstraction. As if through a fog, we see imagined mountain ranges roaming past us, the depictions of animals appearing between textures. Opdahl gives her canvases a relief-like feel, light and shadow show movement within the picture.
The artist studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich and at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne. she lives and works in Berg am Starnberger See.
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.