Andrea Langensiepen was born in Vienna in 1964 and worked successfully for many years as an art director for major Italian fashion labels. In 2006 she founded her own design agency in Tyrol and at the same time started a broad artistic education. Hubert Scheibl, Peter Casagrande, Prof. Markus Lüpertz, Prof. Hermann Nitsch and Prof. Christian Ludwig Attersee had a strong formative influence on the artist. Langensiepen is a passionate painter who has devoted her entire life to the question of how the new comes into the world. Her questions are complex. What is art? What is creation? What gives us the power to create the new? What is visible to whom, when and why? Which themes touch the individual, society, the artist? How do themes and art per se change in a temporal context?
Through this complex contemplation and its artistic realization, the empathic seismographer and authentic storyteller opens unexpected horizons marked by enormous creativity, professionalism and non-conformity. Imprints that were additionally fueled by her great uncle and academic painter Andreas Einberger and your eminent teachers, all great free spirits.
Langensiepen herself perceives art as the great secret of letting go, of breaking free from the usual interpretive framework, as the liberation from conventions and constraints. By crossing decisive thresholds, the longed-for entry into the creative rush of creation and activity (flow) succeeds, which is considered the ultimate element of creative design for the optimal fathoming of potential. Langensiepen describes this as her great journey, whose paths and goals she only recognizes when they reveal themselves to her, as a creative act, as an odyssey through all her realities.
In her preferred format, painting, she is able to pursue her enthusiasm for colors and forms as well as their composition in an open process. She detaches herself from the superficial, the visible and searches for what lies beneath the surface.
In her works, the artist approaches the painting layer by layer. There is no restriction to certain techniques or styles. The detachment from existing gives creative creations the space to grow. Her works are understood as an open process and are an uninterrupted series of departures and distortions.
Guided by intuition, impulsivity and an eye for detail, she succeeds in capturing the fullness of the world in the complexity of the composition. The transformation process that takes place is for her the perpetual search for answers to questions that have never been asked.
Langensiepen's abstract free painting takes us into the world of nature, mythology and happiness. Quite in the sense of Theodor W. Adorno merges here nature beautiful with art beautiful.
Since 2021 exhibitions in Austria, Germany and Italy.
Andrea Langensiepen lives and works in Ellmau in Tyrol.
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