Schnitt Sieben
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Abstract |
| Technique | Sculpture |
| Height | 147.2 cm |
| Width | 97.7 cm |
| Length/Depth | 4 cm |
Media/Technique: Wall paint, acrylic paint and synthetic resin on wood
Year of creation: 2023
The ‘Schnitt’ series currently comprises eight works.
Freehand drawings, prepared in advance, are roughly transferred by hand onto wooden packaging boards salvaged from bulky waste. The shape is then quickly and roughly milled out of the panel using a router. The resulting surface is sanded and primed before being coloured with kitsch and garishly bright pastel colours.
The panels effectively become woodcut printing blocks that are never actually used for printing. Instead, the ‘printing block’ itself becomes the artwork.
Warped, rough and ‘ugly’ wooden panels are ‘made pretty’ and given a new lease of life.
SCULPTURAL PAINTING
TOM // SCHNITTE SERIES
0977 x 1472 x 0040 MM
WALL AND ACRYLIC PAINT, EPOXY RESIN ON WOOD
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.
