Gert and Uwe Tobias
(Romanian, born 1973)
Biography
Gert and Uwe Tobias are a Romanian artistic duo and identical twins, best known for their colorful, abstract woodcut prints and paintings. In many of their works, the artists combine the media of woodblock printing, typewriters, ceramics, and watercolor, creating a layered effect on the surface of the canvas. Influenced by Romanian culture and Modernist painting, the pair often link the seemingly disparate traditions of regional folk tradition and canonical art history. “We both work in many mediums, from ceramics to drawing,” Gert has said. “Every piece we produce is made by just one of us, but we both sign it at the end.” For example, in their painting Untitled (2007), they depict women in traditional Transylvanian dress in the style of the Russian Constructivists. Born in 1973 Brasov, Romania, twins Gert and Uwe Tobias, they later moved to Braunschweig to study art together. In 2007, the artists received international attention after presenting the solo exhibition Gert and Uwe Tobia at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, and later that same year were also included in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. They live and work in Cologne, Germany.
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Gert and Uwe Tobias
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.jpg "Untitled (+ another, paper collage and oil..., 2007")
Gert and Uwe Tobias
Untitled (+ another, paper collage and oil..., 2007
Sale Date: November 9, 2010
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.jpg "Ohne Titel (+ bk), 2008")
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