Picture "Depression Elevations, Massage Lake" (2021) (Unique piece)
Picture "Depression Elevations, Massage Lake" (2021) (Unique piece)
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unique piece | polyurethane casting | unframed | size 155 x 123 x 6 cm
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Picture "Depression Elevations, Massage Lake" (2021) (Unique piece)
The installation wall object belongs to the series of works "Depression Elevations", which consists of coloured casts of uneven sections of road and potholes. The artworks explore the traces of human civilisation and history.
Pigmented polyurethane casting, UV-resistant. 2021. Unframed. Height: 155 cm. Width: 123 cm. Depth: 6 cm.
About Daniel Knorr
Daniel Knorr was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1968, but grew up in the Upper Palatinate.
He studied with Olaf Metzel at the Academy of Arts in Munich. The artist received international attention for his smoke installation "Expiration Movement" on the occasion of Documenta in 2017.
"I call my working method materialization. From the moment the artwork appears in the artist's mind, a process of materialization begins. The idea itself is the trigger for the work's choice of media, its material and manifestation. My conceptual practice aims to explore the critical interest in art production and perception." Knorr describes his work.
The artist lives and works in Berlin and Hong Kong.
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.