Picture "Autumn Sky 1" (2015) (Unique piece)
Picture "Autumn Sky 1" (2015) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | titled | oil on canvas | unframed | size 30 x 40 cm
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Picture "Autumn Sky 1" (2015) (Unique piece)
Autumn by the master of impasto painting.
Oil on canvas, 2015, signed, dated and titled. Size stretched on stretcher frame 30 x 40 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Ben Kamili
Landscapes and flowers within reach
It seems as if it is not enough for Ben Kamili (born in 1969) just to paint a landscape. The German-Albanian plein air painter restores a physicality to his painting through the impasto application of paint. Using lush reflections of light and capturing the essence of the motif, Kamili thus creates a new landscape that now exists on the canvas.
His sensually expressive compositions are based on a profound understanding of drawing. While still studying at school, his drawings and watercolours were already exhibited. At the age of 18, he participated for the first time in a group exhibition at K.P Tetove. After moving to the German capital, he studied materials science at the Technical University of Berlin starting in 1996. In addition, he studied free painting at the Berlin University of the Arts from 1998 to 2004. Since then, the artist has presented his characteristic landscape subjects in numerous solo and group exhibitions.
For a long time, Kamili has been fascinated by German landscapes in his artistic work. Beyond the surroundings of his hometown Berlin, has also focused on the North German seaside resort Weserland and repeatedly the islands of Sylt and Usedom.
In his flower paintings, he continues his methodology and thus forms a very own, abstracted interpretation from a motif of nature, in which colour dominates over form. In his series "Sylt Roses", the artist brings the two motif worlds together to a certain extent – on the one hand, because the floral artwork was created on Sylt and, on the other hand, because he virtually develops a new landscape from the rose motif.
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.