Picture "Poppies" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Picture "Poppies" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
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original | signed | pastel on handmade paper | unframed | size 48.5 x 63.5 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Poppies" (2020) (Original / Unique piece), unframed
Original 2020, signed. Pastel on handmade paper. Unframed. Motif size/sheet size 48.5 x 63.5 cm (h/w).
About Kani Alavi
Kani Alavi, born in 1955 in Lahidjan (Northern Persia), moved to Berlin in 1980. Here, he began studying painting as a student of Prof. Klaus Fußmann at the Berlin University of the Arts. In 1986, he became a master-class student under Prof. Klaus Fußmann.
In 1990, Alavi was one of the artists who painted parts of the Berlin Wall, which is today known as the East Side Gallery. Since 1996, he has been the initiator of the artists' initiative "East Side Gallery". In 2001, wall segments painted by him were officially gifted to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan by the President of the German Bundestag Wolfgang Thierse. And in 2002, these segments were installed in the United Nations Sculpture Garden in New York.
In 2011, Kani Alavi was awarded the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his significant commitment to the creation, preservation, and reconstruction of the largest open-air gallery in the world (East Side Gallery Berlin). In 2013, the demolition of part of the wall began. At the end of March 2013, Alavi announced that he would return his award to the President of Germany in protest against further demolition of the East Side Gallery.
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.