Picture "Bouquet of Flowers" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Picture "Bouquet of Flowers" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
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original | signed | watercolour on paper | unframed | size 76 x 56 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Bouquet of Flowers" (2021) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Original 2021, signed. Watercolour on paper. Unframed. Motif size/sheet size 76 x 56 cm (h/w).
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Ansgar Skiba
Rampant colours, swirling brushstrokes – Ansgar Skiba's forces of nature
Ansgar Skiba's paintings are of impressive intensity: A dynamic rush of colours, whitecaps dancing on breaking waves, lush vegetation that the artist has brought onto the canvas with his hands, wooden sticks or brush handles and which now seems to overgrow it in relief.
It is the interplay of surface and space that particularly interests Skiba. He often uses a perspective that resembles the view through a zoom lens: Landscapes and nature are reduced to a small, archetypal section and convey an intense impression of the beauty of the whole precisely through the reduction to detail on a small surface.
Ansgar Skiba, born in 1959, was admitted to evening studies at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in his hometown of Dresden, Germany, at the age of 14. When he was 16 years old, he passed the qualifying examination for studies at the Kunstakademie. However, the East German authorities made him wait until 1981 to begin his studies because he was "politically unreliable". After a year at the Dresden Academy, he left for West Germany. There Skiba continued his studies at the Düsseldorf Art Academy between 1983 and 1988. Since then, he has travelled to numerous countries and landscapes in search of motifs and inspiration. For him, despite his training at two outstanding academies in East and West Germany, one thing is certain: "My teacher was always nature."
Ansgar Skiba's magnificent, varied landscapes can be found in numerous collections, including the Kunstmuseum in Gelsenkirchen.
Painting 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 or watercolour 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 personally created by the artist. It exists only once due to the type of production (oil painting, watercolour, drawing, lost-wax sculpture etc.).
In addition to the classic unique pieces, there are also 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 genre 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.
The historical starting point is considered to be Claude Monet's "Les Meules" (1890/1891), where, 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.