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| Edition | Original Art |
|---|---|
| Sujet | Abstract |
| Technique | Painting |
| Height | 60 cm |
| Width | 61 cm |
| Length/Depth | 9 cm |
Materials/Technique: Artificial flowers, synthetic resin, acrylic and wall paint applied to construction adhesive on wood
Year of creation: 2023
- unframed - fragile -
The Flower Series currently comprises six works.
Very old plastic flowers found in a second-hand shop are roughly glued onto wooden panels using construction adhesive. The panels are then primed with cheap wall paint, painted with acrylic paint and coated with a layer of epoxy resin.
The result is kitsch, colourful and glossy images of flowers, made from flowers.
The pictures arose from the idea of subjecting the artificial flowers to a process of ageing.
The construction adhesive and paint coating slowly flake off; the flowers ‘wilt’ over time and droop.
In the works from this series, this is prevented by applying an epoxy resin coating to preserve the image of the flowers
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SCULPTURAL PAINTING (2023)
TOM // FLOWERS SERIES
0600 × 0610 × 0090 mm
PLASTIC FLOWERS, CONSTRUCTION ADHESIVE, ACRYLIC, WALL 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.
