Andrea Amelung
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category: Painting
technique: Mixing technique
Style: Abstract
Statement:
German-born artist Andrea Amelung is deeply devoted to the experimentation of process. She has developed a special method that incorporates a variety of mediums to produce intense colors that shimmer and radiate from the canvas. Amelung is a traveler at heart, with journeys and extended stays in many locales around the world. These experiences have served her well as an artist, collecting ideas, materials, and skills along the way. Since 1995, she has studied and painted in various artist studios, master classes, and workshops, efforts that have broadened her understanding of experimental processes and the practice of painting as a whole.
The extraordinary results of Amelungs diligent efforts are easy to discern. Her work, completed in a contemporary abstract expressionist style, is stunning to behold. Her achievements with texture produce a weathered, time-tested appearance to the application of paint. Other works are approached with gradations of a particular hue, to allow for the richest expression of the dominant color. Geometric forms and gestural lines are scrawled into or on top of the paint, evoking both modern and ancient art forms. Amelung will often employ raw pigments combined with unusual painting media such as modeling plastic, sand, ash, and marble dust. Her superb layering effects are also achieved by applying washes of beeswax and then scraping sections to reveal the layers below, providing a potent sense of texture and depth. Beyond testing the limits of the painting process, art for Amelung is a means to express emotions that are not easy to verbalize or represent. Abstract art is a visceral, instantly accessible plane of discourse with her audience. "Art is a means for me to capture different moods and situations from my life," she states. "My paintings hope to inspire, make curious, deliver surprises and radiate optimism, positive associations and joy of life." Amelung has exhibited and sold to private collectors around Europe and she lives and works in Berlin and Spain.
Bio / Resumee / Statement:
Art training/Art academies:
ArtCenter South Florida, Miami, Freie Universität Berlin, Akademie für Malerei Berlin, Freie Akademie für Kunst Berlin and self-taught.
Main subjects: abstract compositions.
Usual techniques: acrylic, raw pigments, rust and patina, mixed media on canvas.
Techniques:
Acrylic- and Pigmentpaintings
Into my large-sized acrylic paintings I use different materials, like paper, fibers, gypsum or plastic-modelling masses, etc. Everything is applied on in several layers, is washed off partially again and then applied again. On this relief-like structure form will form on which the acrylic colours are then applied. Coloured, luminous paintings with various layers and overlapping structures emerge.
Since 2000 I work with pigments that lend a radiant coloured powdered sugar effect to the paintings. I partly process the pigments with modelling mass, sand, ash or marble dust and apply them in relief-like layers to give the paintings materiality. I use the pure pigment as a color body, powdery and granular.
Rust and Patina
The rust works are created by different oxidation techniques with iron powder, iron filings, sand, copper particles, brass and bronze chips and various rust solutions.
Chalk works
The haptic white chalk works are created by different mixing techniques of chalk, wire, paper, sand from around the world and marble dust applied in several layers to give each work a haptic texture and a sense of depth. Depending on the light and the sun shining onto the artwork shadows arise and migrate across it which breaths life and dynamic into the work.
The acrylic works from the series “Skylines of world metropolises” reproduce the moods of different cities during or immediately after sunset. You catch the moment when the hustle and bustle of the city sinks into silence for a short while before the transition to nightlife. The skyline pictures are characterized by the fact that warm colors are applied in several layers and partly exposed again. Bright images with a deep texture are created.
The room installations and mobiles are made of acrylic glass, most of them made of fluorescent acrylic glass, which catch the sunlight during the day and reflect the light. When the sun shines directly on the fluorescent acrylic glass, it is projected onto the walls behind it. Or - if it is installed under a skylight, for example - on the floor below. Depending on the sunlight, always at a different angle. The fluorescent acrylic glass shines especially on sunny days but also on bad weather days, since the UV light is also reflected. The vortices that connect the parts allow flowing movements in all directions. Even a light wind or air flow through an air conditioning system gets everything moving.
The sculptures are made of natural stone or cast from concrete and are provided with glass mosaic / mirror glass / Tiffany glass, ceramic particles, etc. The mosaic sculptures catch the sun and reflect the light. They are weatherproof and ideally suited for outdoor use.
Encaustik
It is a very varied form of creation and goes back to a 3000 year-old tradition. In my works bleached beeswax acts as a carrier material of the pigments and at the same time as a protection. The valuable gloss has a long durability. By scraping, scratching, lining, dotting, etc. the Encaustik offers a singular variety to the creation of the painted surface. In my works a constant interplay results from applying numerous layers of wax and partially scraping it off in the constant process of preserving and destroying the work. With the Enkaustik I generate animate thermo-sculptural processes which produce tangible coloured pictures with relief-like structures.
Sand paintings
On my journeys I found that sand from different places in the whole world is different in colour and granulation. I combine the different sand types with iron, copper, wood, etc. to create a harmonious whole. The granulation and colour of the sand give an individual atmosphere to each painting.
Press
» Ico Gallery New York, Curator Eugene Hwang
"02/10/2008 Amelung's meditative paintings are chromatic experiments,
which ambitiously rely heavily on color and simple forms to relate the artist's themes. One gets the sense that all is gingerly placed, though there is a good amount of extemporaneity. Once the paint is brushed on, there is a confidence that it was meant to be, though it might not have come out as planned. There is no such thing as a rehearsal. There is no need for them because there are no mistakes, and so these pieces, while containing a melancholic element, embrace optimism. Any simplicity in good art is only apparent. Amelung takes on the challenge of maximizing expression while keeping color and forms simple. Her solution is texture and allowing her quadrilaterals to have "imperfections." There were never any rulers involved. The result is something that appears simultaneously primitive and modern"
Eugene Hwang
Kunst am Bau
http://www.bauenmallorca.eu/kunst-am-bau/
Books
- e-books bestellbar unter: www.blurb.de/ebooks (search: Art von Amelung)
as ebook or print version
z. B. http://www.blurb.de/bookshare/app/index.html?bookId=7409608
- WoA, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Issue 9, Vol. 1, 2020, ISBN: 978918968545, ISSN 1404-3408
- "International Contemporary Masters 2008", Omma Center of Contemporary Art, CA, USA
– "2008 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art", Casa Editrice Alba.
– "2009 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art"
Articles
- WoA, Biennale di Venezia issue 8, Vol.2, 2019
- Spotlight, Issue 17
- ARTisSpectrum Magazine New York, Vol. 17, page 4
- Artfairs International: www.artfairsinternational.com
- New York Arts Magazine: www.nyartsmagazin.com
Membership:
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), New York
- Berufsverband Bildender Künstler (BBK)
Activities:
Shanghai Artfair 11/2023
Showroom P60, Pariserstraße, Berlin Wilmersdorf 2022/2023
SHOWROOM Berlin: Galerie Canvas, Goethestraße 83,
Charlottenburg 10/2021-4/22
Los Angeles ArtShow, 1/2020
Senseless Art Galerie, Mallorca 12/2019
Scope Miami, 12/2019
Amsterdam International Artfair (AIAF) 8/2019
Monaco Yacht Show, 9/2019
Barcelona International Artfair, (BCN) Spain
Temporary Gallery Berlin
Gallerie GUM, Miami, USA
"Il Palagio", seat of Museum "Libero Andreotti, Pescia, Toskana, Italien
Artfair Berliner Liste, Berlin
Gallery Boswell Mourot Fine Art, Little Rock, AR, USA
Galeria ArteCasa Port Andratx, Mallorca
AHOY-Gallery, Port Adriano, Mallorca
Villa Henckel, Potsdam
ArtExpo New York
Red Dot Art Fair New York
ARTnow Fair, Chicago
Produzentenmesse, Kommunale Galerie Berlin
Red Dot Art Fair Miami, Wynwood District
Select Art Fair, Miami-Beach
Palazzo Arese Borromeo, Milano, Italy
14th Beijing Int. Art Expo, China
Tallahassee, Brogan Museum of Arts and Science, USA
Exhibitalia/Art Basel Miami, USA
Southern Nevada Museum of fine Art, Las Vegas
NY Arts Beijing Gallery, Peking, China
Tease Art, Cologne
Art Innsbruck, Österreich
Venedig Biennale, NY Arts Venice Pavillon
Biennale Internazionale de´ll Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
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