Picture "Untitled (Mantra)" (2021) (Unique piece)
Picture "Untitled (Mantra)" (2021) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | mixed media on canvas | unframed | size 190 x 200 cm
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Picture "Untitled (Mantra)" (2021) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2021. Signed. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 190 x 200 cm.
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 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.
Graphic artwork in the making of which the artist combines at least two graphic techniques.
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.