Picture "Water Lilies VIII" (2019) (Unique piece)
Picture "Water Lilies VIII" (2019) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | original embossing | framed | size 92 x 68 cm
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Picture "Water Lilies VIII" (2019) (Unique piece)
In his works on paper, Thomas Röthel deals with the working method of deconstruction, which finds its art historical references in the famous works of Lucio Fontana.
Röthel stacks various layers of handmade paper on top of each other. He then breaks open and even sometimes tears the surface, providing a glimpse into the interior of these sculptural works on paper.
Original embossing, 2019. Signed and dated. Motif size/sheet size 78 x 54 cm. Size in frame 92 x 68 cm as shown.
About Thomas Röthel
After his training as a wood sculptor, Thomas Röthel (born in 1969 in Ansbach, Germany) studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg and became a master-class student in 1995. In the same year, he began to develop his striking steel sculptures. The artist carefully places cuts in the evenly glowing heated steel, which creates refined bends and twists in the objects after the material has cooled down. These objects seem to defy gravity and radiate an almost graceful lightness in contrast to the resistant material.
Röthel's conceptual approach and his virtuoso handling of solid steel give rise to artistic forms in which dynamics and tranquillity merge and are become tangible in a fascinating way.
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.
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.