Wooden sculpture "Body#317.2/4" (2022) (Original / Unique piece)
Wooden sculpture "Body#317.2/4" (2022) (Original / Unique piece)
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unique piece | wood | handmade and -painted | size approx. 46.5 x 12 x 10 cm (h/w/d) | weight approx. 1.2 kg
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Wooden sculpture "Body#317.2/4" (2022) (Original / Unique piece)
Handcrafted sculpture made of lime wood, painted with acrylic paint, several layers partially exposed. Unique piece. With magnets for attaching to the feet. Size approx. 46.5 x 12 x 10 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 1.2 kg.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Johanna Schelle
Johanna Schelle (born in 1984) is a Munich-based sculptor whose wood and stucco marble works focus on the human figure. Her sculptures, often inspired by everyday moments, combine visible traces of craftsmanship with an aesthetic fragility that reflects the inner and outer world of humanity.
Schelle studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and has received numerous awards, including the Kunstverein Rosenheim Art Prize and the "Bayern Innovativ" project grant. Her works are exhibited internationally, most recently at Art Busan (South Korea).
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.