Video: Artistic nailing by Gunther Uecker
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Probably, almost everyone can hammer an ordinary nail into the wall - there is nothing difficult about it. But only a few manage to turn this skill into real art and become famous all over the world thanks to it. Among these lucky ones is a German author Gunther Uecker (Gunther Uecker).
Gunther Uecker created his first work using nails in the late 1950s, and to date, according to rough estimates, the author has used more than a hundred tons of nails - more than a skilled worker uses in his entire life. Standard nails are not always suitable for realizing the ideas of the master, so sometimes he has to order special ones - with special proportions that the author needs.
The image made of nails became for Gunther Uecker a kind of antithesis to the painted picture. In each of his works, the author nails nails at different distances from each other, at different angles, at different depths - and thus studies the play of light and shadow, and also gets a work that changes its appearance depending on the viewing angle. By the way, Ucker works not only with flat surfaces: with no less enthusiasm, he hammers nails into chairs, pianos, televisions, which sometimes just shocks the audience.
Gunther Uecker was born in 1930 in Wendorf (Germany). The author's sphere of creative interests includes drawing, object art, and installations. Uecker's works are in the permanent collections of the Tate Modern (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture (Paris), the Royal Museum of Fine Arts (Antwerp), the Ludwig Museum (Cologne) and others. The author currently lives, works and teaches in Düsseldorf.
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