Schnitt Zwölf
| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Other |
| Technique | Sculpture |
| Height | 114 cm |
| Width | 122 cm |
| Length/Depth | 4.5 cm |
Acrylic and emulsion paint, acrylic varnish (matt), synthetic resin, MDF
The ‘Schnitt’ series currently comprises thirteen works.
Freehand drawings prepared in advance are transferred by hand onto MDF panels. 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 garishly bright pastel colours.
The panels effectively become woodcut printing blocks that are never used for printing. Instead, the ‘printing block’ itself becomes the artwork.
In this piece, each cut has been filled with coloured resin to make the grooves look wet and glossy, whilst the background remains matt thanks to an acrylic varnish.
In the background, the word ‘Liebe’ is written in very large, distorted white letters on a very light blue background, making it barely legible.
2025 // CUT SERIES // TOMVONGESTERN
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.
