Picture "Wall" (2021)
Picture "Wall" (2021)
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unique piece | signed | dated | oil on canvas | framed | size 250 x 360 cm
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Picture "Wall" (2021)
Oil on canvas, 2021, signed and dated. Size in frame 250 x 360 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Christian Thoelke
In his work, Christian Thoelke (born 1973 in Berlin) combines architectural motifs from the futuristic GDR modernism - such as the so-called VT folded roof - with naturalistic elements like birch or hackberry trees. Both are regarded as pioneer plants, characterised by their resilience and undemanding nature. The juxtaposition of standardised architecture and resilient vegetation creates pictorial spaces in which structure and growth, planning and appropriation overlap.
Technically, Thoelke combines classical and contemporary methods: canvases with multiple layers of primer meet a glazing technique and an aesthetic shaped by urban visual culture. His compositions are reminiscent of theatrical spaces in which different levels overlap, opening up diverse interpretations.
Christian Thoelke studied at the Berlin-Weissensee School of Art under Prof. Wolfgang Peuker and was a master student at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig under Prof. Ulrich Hachulla.
Thoelke’s works have garnered international attention both in private collections and in institutional contexts. The artist lives and works in Berlin.
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.