Picture "Outside the White" (2021) (Serial unique piece)
Picture "Outside the White" (2021) (Serial unique piece)
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serial unique piece | signed | dated | ceramic | framed | size 52 x 52 cm
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Picture "Outside the White" (2021) (Serial unique piece)
Ceramics, 2021. 20 ceramic objects, signed and dated on the back. Size in frame 52 x 52 cm as shown.
About Mandy Wiesener
Mandy Wiesener, an artist living in Frankfurt am Main, Germany deals with decontextualisation in her work. For this purpose, she is constantly on the lookout for mundane everyday objects, which she tears out of their original context and puts to a new purpose.
The artist carefully makes each individual object of her ceramic works by hand. First, she roughly sanded them. Afterwards, she meticulously polished them under a magnifying glass, and if they are presented in a shadow gap frame, she additionally varnishes them with car paint.
In order to intensify the play of light and shadow and to increase tension and dynamics, all objects are also produced at different angles of inclination.
By deliberately dispensing with colour, the solitary objects merge into a new compositional unity. The artist wants to provide the viewer with the opportunity to escape this sensory overload, away from the rush of colours and the flood of digital images and give them a moment of stillness and calm - in order to then experience the power, fascination, and beauty of structured, geometric forms. The ZERO movement, concrete art, serves as inspiration and a creative force.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from the representational depiction, which spread throughout the entire western and parts of the eastern world from around 1910 onwards in ever new stylistic variations. The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, born in 1866, is considered the founder of abstract art. Other important artists of abstract art are K.S. Malewitsch, Piet Mondrian, and others.
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.