Picture "Quintet Red" (2009) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Picture "Quintet Red" (2009) (Original / Unique piece), framed
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | framed | size 105 x 135 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Quintet Red" (2009) (Original / Unique piece), framed
Original painting 2009, signed. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Stretcher frame size 100 x 130 cm (h/w). Framed in silver-coloured solid wood shadow gap frame. Size 105 x 135 cm (h/w).
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About Jens Wohlrab
Jens Wohlrab is one of the young artists of "New German Art" who are conquering the international art market with their works.
His works have no lines. Colours characterise the dramaturgy of his pictures. His motifs are taken from sketches and photographs, which he alienates with abstract moments and colourful sources of interference. The interplay of formal and colourful components creates intriguing urban scenarios –between illusion and reality.
"Looking at a painting for a long time is like listening to music on another level: the sounds of the colours, the rhythms of the forms similarly move the soul, like a musical composition. And vice versa, a musician artfully created images while playing sounds on the instrument." This parable runs through the entire oeuvre of the artist. He was born in 1965 in Bayreuth, Germany, and grew up in Nuremberg. He studied painting under Professor Marwan at the Berlin University of the Arts between 1990 and 1996.
In addition to his great passion for painting, Wohlrab has played the piano since he was a child. The wonderful direct path into the soul via the ear and the emotion-triggering artistic interlacing of sounds has always accompanied him in equal measure alongside his occupation with paint on canvas. Wohlrab always finds mutual references to painting and music in nature, which he then captures on canvas. The transformation of seen nature into a digital colour impulse, and the transformation of the reality we know into an alien world, makes it possible to create images that visually transport this feeling that follows him when he hears certain sounds. The cityscape is a welcome subject to follow a longing that corresponds to this seductive sound world. With blurring and shifting colour sounds, the abstract quality comes more to the fore: visual scores emerge to create symphonies for the eye. Form becomes rhythm, and the colour becomes sound.
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.