Picture "Purple Rain" (2023) (Unique piece)
Picture "Purple Rain" (2023) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | titled | mixed media on ceramic | framed | size 94 x 64 cm
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Picture "Purple Rain" (2023) (Unique piece)
Acrylic, ink and varnish on ceramic, 2023. Signed, dated and titled on the back. Size in frame 94 x 64 cm as shown.
About Zyko78
Zyko78 (*1979) has been artistically active in urban space since the mid-1990s.
His works incorporate techniques and materials from both graffiti and ink painting.
After a long station in Berlin, a stay of several years in Beijing (China) brings him into contact with Asian painting. Especially the Chinese calligraphy and ink painting, whose essence lies in the spontaneous expressive painting style have taken the artist.
In his ceramic paintings, Zyko78 breaks away from the classic painting canvas and seeks a new material aesthetic. Through the alternating application and renewed removal of layers of paint, peculiar optical effects are created. Informel and its gestural, chance-influenced aesthetic are the inspiration here.
Zyko78 was a participant in various urban art projects, including Walllords Shanghai, 40Grad Urbanart Festival Düsseldorf, Hafendampf Essen, Urban Nature Hannover.
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.