Sculpture "Flower" (2019) (Original / Unique piece), marble
Sculpture "Flower" (2019) (Original / Unique piece), marble
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unique piece | signed | marble | wood | sculpture: size 53 x 38 x 16 cm (h/w/d), weight approx. 28 kg | column: size 90 x 24 x 24 cm (h/w/d), weight approx. 12 kg
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Sculpture "Flower" (2019) (Original / Unique piece), marble
Unique piece made of fine Carrara marble. Signed on the underside. Including wooden column (not shown). Size sculpture 53 x 38 x 16 cm (h/w/d). Weight approx. 28 kg. Size column 90 x 24 x 24 cm (h/w/d). Total weight approx. 40 kg.
About Klaus W. Rieck
Rieck's free-standing sculptures search for a form that speaks for themselves – they are not an image or abstraction but show an invisible world. His works may evoke associations, but they always stand for themselves, to be seen and touched. Through their reductiveness, they express the essentiality of being that is more akin to the metaphysical and cosmic world.
Klaus W. Rieck was born in Kassel, Germany and studied sculpture and architecture at the Berlin Art Academy. He has been living and working in Berlin as a freelance sculptor since 1996. His freelance work has been accompanied by commissions for ornamental and figurative sculpture. Rieck takes part in solo and group exhibitions and has already been represented at various sculpture symposia.
A plastic work of sculptural art made of wood, stone, ivory, bronze or other metals.
While sculptures from wood, ivory or stone are made directly from the block of material, 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 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.