Bausteine Vier
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Abstract |
| Technique | Sculpture |
| Height | 124 cm |
| Width | 113.5 cm |
| Length/Depth | 3.5 cm |
Media/Technique: Wall paint and acrylic paint, wood glue, synthetic resin, wood, MDF, on OSB
Year of creation: 2023
The ‘Baustein’ series currently comprises four works. A solid wooden panel is sawn into small pieces, stained and glued back onto another panel, spaced slightly apart. In this piece, each piece was also milled. The front of the pieces and the panel to which they are attached are the same colour. From the front, you can see the ‘milled grooves’ and the shapes of the pieces; only when you move in front of the artwork do you see the colourful sides. Depending on where the artwork is hung, light is reflected in the synthetic resin coating – it almost looks wet.
TOM // BUILDING BLOCK SERIES
1135 MM X 1240 MM X 0035 MM
WALL & ACRYLIC PAINT, WOOD ADHESIVE, EPOXY RESIN, MDF, WOOD, OSB
Tom Freudenberger
My works are usually created in series, and I enjoy working with materials that come my way – be it wooden panels from the bulky waste, plastic flowers from a flea market, and so on. This often dictates the format straight away.I enjoy ‘rough’ working methods, for example using construction adhesive, and then I paint the pictures in light – I’d even say kitsch – pastel wall colours to contrast with this roughness. I ‘make it pretty’. In doing so, I like to stick to this DIY catalogue aesthetic. In keeping with this theme, some of the ‘(B)Angel pictures’ are also set against kitsch textured wallpaper. In this series, the focus of the work is, on the one hand, a critique of existing body and role stereotypes, and on the other, an imaginative glorification of them.
