Picture "Circle" (2015) (Unique piece)
Picture "Circle" (2015) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | cardboard and paper | object box | size 50 x 50 cm
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Picture "Circle" (2015) (Unique piece)
Cardboard and paper, 2015. Signed and dated on the back. Size in Plexiglas box 50 x 50 cm as shown.
About Lothar Guderian
The work of the German artist Lothar Guderian (born in 1939) focuses on cardboard and the exploration of three-dimensionality. He combines the handmade cut-outs to form a complex pattern, which, turns into a filigree 3D collage through layering.
Guderian's monochrome painting impresses with a graphically light form of expression. The quality is comparable to the reliefs of Jan Schoonhoven or the embossed prints of Günther Uecker. Sometimes horizontal and vertical, sometimes diagonal, interwoven in a deliberately laid out and ethereal order – the artist's variations are endless. But his search for a clear form, for harmony and aesthetics, takes the first rank. Guderian works are a real discovery!
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.