Picture "The Calculation" (2025) (Unique piece)
Picture "The Calculation" (2025) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | signed | dated | titled | oil on canvas | unframed | size 160 x 120 cm
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Picture "The Calculation" (2025) (Unique piece)
Oil on canvas, 2025, signed, dated and titled. Unframed. Size stretched on stretcher frame 160 x 120 cm as shown.
Producer: ars mundi Edition Max Büchner GmbH, Bödekerstraße 13, 30161 Hanover, Germany, [email protected]
About Wolfgang Kessler
Wolfgang Kessler (born in Hanover in 1962) studied fine art at the Braunschweig University of Art from 1982 to 1987. In 1988, he became a master student under Prof. Ben Willikens.
Light, colour, materiality. These are perhaps the most important components of Wolfgang Kessler's painting. Added to this is the calmness and introversion of the figures, most of whom are depicted alone against a black background.
This is unusual in contemporary painting, and at the same time it ties in with remembered images and an idea of beauty that are buried in our cultural memory. When the question arises as to whether painting is or should be beautiful, we tend to look far back in art history and end up with Delacroix, whose painting began to take an interest in things beyond the conventional idea of beauty.
Wolfgang Kessler lives and works in Detmold and Lemgo.
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.