Painting titled "Elaine Sturtevant Ad" by Peter Vahlefeld, Original Artwork, Oil

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Elaine Sturtevant Ad (2021) Painting by Peter Vahlefeld

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Original Artwork (One Of A Kind) Painting, Oil / Acrylic / Ink / Spray paint on Canvas

Artworks classification

One of a kind (OOAK / Original Artwork)

One-of-a-kind works of art are also known as “OOAK” artworks. This means that every work of art is unique and there will never be another identical one.
Dimensions Height 53.2in, Width 78.7in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Paintings under $20,000 Expressionism Abstract

Peter Vahlefeld starts to use the magazine page (readymade) as a medium. The furious, jagged marks appear as if he was attacking the printed matter (a double page of an Elaine Sturtevant ad) with a physicality that reduced representational forms to a purely emotional response.

By appropriating and deconstructing those glossy pages, something more genuine, hand-made, and authentic should be expressed. Characterized by its concentrated materiality, the artwork is constructed from intersecting lines, fields, and swaths of color applied with brooms, brushes, and hands. By varying the force with which he dragged his tools across the canvas, Vahlefeld added and, crucially, removed paint areas to generate a highly unpredictable surface.

The resulting juxtapositions (paint vs. print) seek to remind one of the visual and psychological manipulations in advertising while also creating a new dialogue in response.

About this artwork: Classification, Techniques & Styles

Oil

Paint consisting of pigments bound with linseed oil or carnations. The traditional technique consists of superimposing layers of paint increasingly rich in oil for a solid and durable hanger.

Acrylic

Paint using traditional pigments mixed with synthetic resins.

Ink

A strongly tinted liquid or paste that is used to mark paper or other printable materials. The design is done manually with a slab, feather, brush, or straightener.

Technic Painting

Painting is an art form of painting on a surface by aesthetically applying colored fluids. Painters represent a very personal expression on supports such as paper, rock, canvas, wood, bark, glass, concrete and many other substrates. Work of representation or invention, painting can be naturalistic and figurative, or abstract. It can have narrative, descriptive, symbolic, spiritual, or philosophical content.

Peter Vahlefeld

Germany

Peter Vahlefeld is a contemporary award-winning multimedia artist based in Berlin. The whole social fabric of our society is used as a point of departure for abstraction. He creates his works on the foundation of art marketing materials such as auction house or museum promotional flyers or posters. On this structure, the picture is built up layer by layer using various colors and materials. Painting pigments, as well as a variety of other materials like photo fragments and textiles, give Vahlefeld works their distinct color, tone, and structure. Finally, the images can be classified as startling, exhilarating, colorful, dynamic, rugged, or tactile, owing to their contrasts between analogue and digital painting, the compatibility of many color materials, and elements of production and destruction.

Peter Vahlefeld was born in 1967, in Tokyo, Japan. He graduated from the Parsons School of Design, New York. He has participated in many solo exhibitions and art fairs like art Karlsruhe in Germany on a regular basis or at auctions such as Sotheby’s in Vienna and Neumeister, Munich. Peter Vahlefeld currently lives and works in Berlin.