Andrea Esswein – Von Blumen, Menschen und Papieren

In her work, Andrea Esswein makes use of a wide variety of techniquesm including photography, painting, drawing, video, conceptual art and performance art. Since 1998, her copy collages (copygraphs and copygrams) have enabled her to carve out a very special position for herself in the art scene. Esswein uses the copier as a photographic apparatus with which to create copy originals To do this, she places objects, plants, papers, animals and people on the copier. Placed together piece by piece and orthogonally like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the individual photographed sheets are combined to create a new picture, with interfaces and overlaps remaining visible even after all the reworking. The collage technique gives rise to a fragmented image in which the orig-inal motif appears from different perspectives simultaneously and in a deliberately altered proportional arrangement. The artist is concerned with the construction of a new pictorial reality that moves away from customary perspectives.

Opening

Thursday, January 9th, 2025, 7 – 11 pm

Exhibition

January 10th until March 15th, 2025