Picture " Next to Each Other " (2011) (Unique piece)
Picture " Next to Each Other " (2011) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | oil on canvas | unframed | size 160 x 150 cm
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Picture " Next to Each Other " (2011) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2011. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 160 x 150 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Herta Müller
Herta Müller was born in Bottrop, Germany, in 1955.
From 1975 to 1981, she studied art at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. She works in Berlin and Loro Ciuffenna, Italy, as a freelance artist in the field of painting and drawing. She finds her source of inspiration in the landscape of Tuscany with its streams and rivers, which she captures photographically and in drawings and translates into paintings in her Berlin studio.
"The reflection of water is a projection surface for different perspectives. On the one hand, it alienates the representations of nature, literally manipulating our perception through colour and light. On the other hand, it offers a contemplative effect. At best, it projects our own relationship to the world," the artist sums up.
Since 1990, Müller has been teaching as a visiting professor at the University of the Arts 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.