Picture "Strictly Flowers #3" (2017) (Unique piece)
Picture "Strictly Flowers #3" (2017) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | acrylic on canvas | unframed | size 205 x 150 cm
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Picture "Strictly Flowers #3" (2017) (Unique piece)
Acrylic on canvas, 2017. Signed on the back. Size stretched on stretcher frame 205 x 150 cm.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Pat Rosenmeier
For experts, Pat Rosenmeier, born in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1979, is among the great upcoming painterly talents of our time. She studied in Vancouver and has lived and worked in Miami and Munich since 2006.
Even though all modernist flower motifs seem to have been painted since Claude Monet, the German Canadian painter Pat Rosenmeier deliberately devotes herself to this subject. Rosenmeier's motive for painting is the act of painting itself, the pleasure of spreading paint on canvas. In a conversation with Henrik Lakeberg, Pat Rosenmeier explains: "I don't want to tell any real or surreal stories with my painting... I am interested in pure painting, in alchemical abstractions".
She is driven by the impulse of painting as a physical gesture, whereby her tools are rather coarse, following the tradition of abstract expressionists. Laying the canvases on the floor, her artistic work exploits the wide range of possibilities that painting offers in its liberated form. She controls chemical effects while allowing the unforeseen to happen. The lengthy process of creation requires repeated pauses in which the paint needs time to dry before the treatment is continued. Similar to a doctor blade process, the colours are pulled, pushed, and applied in predominantly short movements on the canvas.
The results are tableaux that challenge the eye, which with their unruly angularity and seemingly fought-for colourfulness are the best proof that floral still lifes also endure in contemporary painting.
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.