Picture "Back Home at last" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Picture "Back Home at last" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
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original painting | signed | oil on canvas | on stretcher frame | size 80 x 100 x 4.5 cm (h/w/d)
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Picture "Back Home at last" (2023) (Original / Unique piece), on stretcher frame
Original painting 2023, signed by hand. Oil on canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Size 80 x 100 x 4.5 cm (h/w/d).
Framing on request.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Silke Schoener
Silke Schoener (born in 1968) proves in her painting that white can be much more than just a blank canvas. In her oil paintings, the German artist creates a compelling contrast: some elements in the paintings are meticulously detailed, almost reaching the realm of photorealism, while others are completely replaced by large white areas. This evokes effects reminiscent of glaring sunlight, reflections, or strong overexposure in photography. However, Schoener primarily wants white to be understood as a space where viewers can let their imagination play and individually complete the image with their own imagination.
Her thematic focus lies in landscape paintings representing different seasons: forests and groups of trees, views over fields and meadows, rivers, and lakes. Occasionally, a few people can be spotted in her paintings, but the focus always remains on nature.
Silke Schoener has been working as a freelance painter since 1994. Before that, she studied at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany. Her exhibitions have taken her to places like New York, London, Paris, and Tokyo.
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.