Picture "Line Thin gray #2" (2022) (Unique piece)
Picture "Line Thin gray #2" (2022) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | acrylic on canvas | unframed | size 110 x 120 cm
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Picture "Line Thin gray #2" (2022) (Unique piece)
Acrylic on canvas, 2022. Signed on the back. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 110 x 120 cm as shown.
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About Ruri Matsumoto
Ruri Matsumoto was born in Tokyo in 1981.
She studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts and the Düsseldorf Art Academy under Markus Lüpertz and Herbert Brandl and is a master's student of the renowned artist Katharina Grosse.
Most recently, Matsumoto received the sponsorship award of the Swiss Fondazione Silene Giannini, based in Lugano.
The artist always works according to a strict concept of reduction and an apparent deconstruction. She paints the backgrounds of her pictures with horizontal or vertical strips of paint and then applies adhesive tape to them, which is then peeled off again - leaving traces, noses, fractures, and fragments.
Works by the painter are in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the Marta Herford. Ruri Matsumoto lives and works in Düsseldorf.
Term for paintings and sculptures that are detached from representational depiction, which spread across the entire western world 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 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.