VOR DEM GEWITTER

Oil and acrylic on canvas, signed by the artist on the backside – 2022

In her latest works, which are exhibited in "Nightflight", Andrea Damp has explored e.g. other subjects, the most volatile of the elements - namely, air and wind. For her, who comes from an old fishing family, the wind has always been a decisive element. The wind determined whether the boats could sail, whether there was high or low water, whether the roads remained passable in winter or whether meter-high drifts of snow blocked the paths.

Not far from Berlin, where the artist lives today, was the aviation pioneer Otto Lilienthal, the first to conquer the air with his gliders in the mid-1800s. Several of Andrea Damp's paintings thus refer to his constructions and they are the ones that have inspired her to create paintings where the air and its movements lift the flying machines into the sky - here with the help of the painting's artistic touch. Andrea Damp's painterly exploration of the element of air has been given a new expression in these canvases and the artist has created a way to make the invisible and intangible element tangible in these paintings.