Wall object "Untitled (Catalogue raisonné 778)" (2024) (Original / Unique piece)
Wall object "Untitled (Catalogue raisonné 778)" (2024) (Original / Unique piece)
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unique piece | certificate | aluminium | coloured anodised | size 70 x 70 x 14 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 5 kg | suspension device
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Wall object "Untitled (Catalogue raisonné 778)" (2024) (Original / Unique piece)
Wall object made of 3mm aluminium plate, anodised, coloured. Unique piece. With certificate. Size 70 x 70 x 14 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 5 kg. With suspension device.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Heiner Thiel
The works of the artist from Wiesbaden, Germany, and curator Heiner Thiel offer the viewer an intense, highly nuanced perception of form and colour. His square or freely curved aluminium sheets, usually concave in shape and anodised in vibrant colours, create a fascinating optical interplay. As Thiel himself describes it: "Metal and colour in optical interplay create a virtual colour space that shines towards the viewer. It is almost impossible to escape the pull of light and colour, which guides their gaze into the depths of the surface."
Thiel's works consist of spherically curved aluminium panels that are anodised in a variety of colours. The free, sometimes biomorphic forms transcend the traditional picture size and expand the spatial impression into the virtual wall space. The spherical curvature creates flat, approximately 10 to 20 centimetres deep colour-spatial bodies, that - depending on the viewing distance and angle - allow constantly changing and fascinating colour and spatial perceptions, even under difficult lighting conditions. Additionally, the curvature and the outer contours of the panels cast shadows that change depending on the lighting situation. These dynamic shadow plays add another impressive spatial dimension to the works. Overall, an artwork is created that initially appears simple and clear in its appearance, but becomes extremely complex and differentiated upon further and more conscious perception by the viewer.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures made of wood, ivory, or stone are carved directly from the material block, in bronze casting, a working model is prepared at first. Usually, it is made of clay or other easily mouldable materials.
The prime time of sculpture after the Greek and Roman antiquity was the Renaissance. Impressionism gave a new impulse to the sculptural arts. Contemporary artists such as Jorg Immendorf, Andora, and Markus Lupertz also enriched sculptures with outstanding works.
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.