{"id":15665,"date":"2022-05-20T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=15665"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:10:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T15:10:48","slug":"andrea-damp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/?page_id=15665","title":{"rendered":"Andrea Damp"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrea Damp was born in 1977 on the island of R\u00fcgen (today Germany), then part of the GDR.
\nHer hometown on the south-eastern end of the island was founded by fishermen in the early 19th century and has retained its former form to the present day.
\nFor generations, the family lived with nature and fishing, a tradition that is now continued by her older brother.
\nAlready in her early childhood she showed her love and talent for painting, initially supported by the former village school teacher, who was experienced in dealing with paint and brushes and taught her first basic
\nknowledge.
\nFrom the age of 16 Andrea Damp received painting lessons from Hans-Dieter Barthel, an artist living on R\u00fcgen, who studied at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin Wei\u00dfensee and actively participated in the cultural life of the former GDR.
\nThrough this support and her intensive, almost manic work, a large number of figurative works were created
\nearly on: landscapes, seascapes and still lifes, which are characterised by extraordinary craftsmanship and a
\nfeeling for colour.
\nAt the University of the Arts (UdK) Berlin she was finally accepted into the class of Prof. Hans-J\u00fcrgen Diehl.
\nDiehl was an important representative of critical realism, who, with the end of the division of Germany,
\ndeclared his previous, realistic work to be complete and turned away from representationalism.
\nSince then, he has pursued a non-objective, non-narrative concept of painting.
\nAndrea Damp is still in close contact and exchange with him.
\nAndrea Damp’s work rests on these two foundations, the early narrative influence of her time on R\u00fcgen and
\nthe strictly abstract view of her student days in Berlin. The ambivalence of these two ways of thinking still
\nforms a fixed factor and the aesthetic appeal of her painting.
\nAt the age of 12, 1989, the era of the GDR ended and not only for the young artist and her family followed
\nyears of uncertainty, change and adaptation.
\nChildhood in the enchanted and secluded village of Neu-Reddevitz ended all the harder and more abruptly
\nas the entire political, social and cultural system lost its reality overnight.<\/p>\n

In 2012 Andrea Damp began a series of small formats under the joint title “D\u00e9j\u00e0-vu”.
\nSince then, the painter has repeatedly worked on individual paintings and small series under this title, which
\nover the years have become a permanent element of her work and for which she exclusively uses two canvas
\nformats: A portrait format measuring 30 x 24 cm and a landscape format measuring 30 x 40 cm.
\nThey are personal images that sometimes threaten to slip away from memory, but whose expression and
\nintensity have a universal, universally valid claim. In them, the artist evokes, processes and preserves the
\ntime, the moments and the feelings of her childhood on R\u00fcgen and the lightheartedness in one of the most
\nbeautiful and remote spots in Germany.
\nHere the terrain was created on which “being alone” could separate from “loneliness”.
\nThe protagonists are alone in a multitude of these small pictures. Immersed in action or thinking, the activity
\ndescribed is reduced to a minimum. Free of distracting factors, these works describe a continuum between
\nfiguration and environment, between narrative representationalism and painterly abstraction.
\nThis state of self-forgetfulness was a formative feeling of Andrea Damp’s childhood, which can come to life
\nevery time through her occupation with painting and the creation of these pictures.<\/p>\n

Each of the small-format pictures is self-contained. What they all have in common is the same height of 30
\ncm, which makes it possible to put together sequences comparable to a film strip, which draw an ever finer
\nand more differentiated panorama of what the artist preserves in them and keeps in living memory as the
\nnumber of images increases.
\nThe colour of these paintings is influenced by Andrea Damp’s earliest painting experiences. Painting
\nexperiences on an island where clouds, water and nature in the course of the seasons leave impressions of
\nthe greatest intensity, whose fascination and grandeur already fascinated painters like Caspar David
\nFriedrich.
\nThe craftsmanship acquired over many years and decades and the constant discourse about painting, the
\nconfrontation with representationalism, abstraction and informel, all this flows together in these small, calm,
\nconcentrated, narrative and infinitely virtuosic pictures and assigns them an outstanding position both in the
\nwork of the artist and in the painting of their generation.<\/p>\n

Ronald Puff, M.A., art historian and curator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrea Damp was born in 1977 on the island of R\u00fcgen (today Germany), then part of the GDR. Her hometown on the south-eastern end of the island was founded by fishermen in the early 19th century and has retained its former form to the present day. For generations, the family lived with nature and fishing, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15665","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15665"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18763,"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15665\/revisions\/18763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janinebeangallery.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}