Picture "11.9.2011, 19:38, I" (2014) (Unique piece)
Picture "11.9.2011, 19:38, I" (2014) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 120 x 150 cm
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Picture "11.9.2011, 19:38, I" (2014) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2014. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 120 x 150 cm.
About Elisabeth Tatenberg
Elisabeth Tatenberg (born in 1953 in Hamburg) pays extra attention to colour surfaces in her work. She transfers real moments of light in the sky onto the canvas and thus creates a unique meditative sphere.
The contourless colour gradients are the result of an elaborate painting process in which Tatenberg progressively distributes the oil colours until they are blended and all traces of craftsmanship are erased. In this way, the colour surfaces serve as pure projection surfaces for the viewer's thoughts, emotions and dreams. "It has to become 'nothing' before it can be 'everything' – it is only after that that the surface is ensouled," says Tatenberg about her work.
Elisabeth Tatenberg's works have been shown at numerous solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthaus Hamburg and Kunstpaviljoen Nieuw Roden, Netherlands.
The artist lives and works at Kunsthaus Hesse Park in Weener, Germany.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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.