Picture "Untitled VII" (2021) (Unique piece)
Picture "Untitled VII" (2021) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | framed | size 84 x 63 cm
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Picture "Untitled VII" (2021) (Unique piece)
Mixed media (oil, photo transfer, pencils, oil pastels) on handmade paper, 2021. Signed. Motif size/sheet size 77 x 56 cm. Size in frame 84 x 63 cm as shown.
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About Stefan Heyer
"With my landscapes, I reach for the unseen, the dark matter, the sounds of the earth. The pictures are from another - my - dimension, they are like mind maps for astral travellers, the ghostly realism of a dream," Stefan Heyer said in an interview.
The artist brings together oil paints, and oil crayons as well as photos and coloured pencils on cardboard to create his very own pictorial-gestural cosmos for his mixed media works - Heyer describes the medium of collage as his "material fetish".
His starting point is usually architectural or figurative photos, which he brings onto the surface of the picture and on the basis of which he retells the story in an abstract form or gives it a form in the first place. Although Heyer prefers the messages of his pictures to remain enigmatic and thought-provoking, he does cite some sources of inspiration for his work, such as pop cultural influences, political themes, or postmodern alienation.
His fascination with architecture and history also permeates his work - they seem like "fragments from the past and present floating through my pictures, like ghosts and echoes from another time and dimension."
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.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic production techniques.
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.