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Andrea Freckmann

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Andrea Freckmann

Herbarium Collection - Collection - 2022 - Andrea Freckmann

Herbarium Collection - Collection - 2022 - Andrea Freckmann

For me life is a big "Stage" that I look at. In my paintings I react as a painter by bending the different scenarios I see to my liking. I use the roles and props of the past and present to give them a different context and a new meaning. Sometimes it feels like I literally have to clean up my repertoire of props. Then I paint a cabinet containing the objects and memories that occupy me at that moment. Such a painting can be created to end a working period or to step out of an ongoing process. I organize my thoughts and repertoire that way. For the Herbarium project I created such a cabinet within the box.

40x40x10 cm, drawing with acrylic paints, plaster object, (2022)

The Herbarium project explores the work environment in contemporary culture in which ideas are created and exchanged. The focus of Herbarium is to compile a collection of sealed creative energy in boxes (40х40х10, 40x20x10 or 20х40х10) of different generations of artists around the world. The contents of each box are accompanied by a description and a sound file with the artist's voice. The artists, invited by the curator of "Herbarium" could choose two new participants - so the project traces the exchange of creative energy in the artworld. The development of the collection has no time limits, it grows exponentially with each new participant until the final exhibition is announced. The H Talks series (video portraits of the artists) are shot during the preparation of each presentation of the Herbarium collection in the artists work environment and studios. All the information, gathered in the process of developing the collection, will be available to all researchers, curators, gallery owners, students or art lovers who are interested in the less visible mechanisms through which contemporary culture functions.