Angela Andorrer - ‘Countries are like Leaves. Support Ukraine’
Angela Andorrer lives and works in Klosterneuburg, close to Vienna, in a studio house with a large garden at the Danube, together with her partner Laurenz and her son Eliot. She studied art in Montreal (Concordia University), Munich (Academy of Fine Arts) and with Kiki Smith (Salzburg Academy). Over the course of her career she has participated in exhibitions at: KMART Kathrin Mulherin Art Projects Toronto, MOCCA Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Museum Bellerive Zürich, and Steirischer Herbst, Graz. In 2021 she represented Austria at the Biennale for Land Art Andorra; in 2022 and 2021 she realized two participatory and permanent, public sculptures ‘Panoramahandscapes’ for the cities of Tulln and Waidhofen/Ybbs (AUT); in the 2000s she staged ‘urbanpilgrims’, participatory, performative tours in Vienna, Copenhagen, Munich, Belgrade and Calgary. Since 2009 she has been working with the palm as landscape; and since 2014 she collects leaves on hikes and alienates them artistically, with paint, yarn and beads. Particularly inspiring for her are leaves eaten away by snails, caterpillars and beetles. She then takes the ‘Blattscapes / leafscapes’ on hikes and portrays them cinematically and photographically against changing landscape backdrops - "Gallery of Travelling Leaves."
"I travel on leaves and in strangers hands. I take hikes on their hills and through their valleys. I follow the patterns and paths. I mark, I map with needle and brush. I am a traveler, a dreamer and follow the lines of life."
‘Countries are like Leaves. Support Ukraine’ consists of 8 ‘Blattscapes’ (German: Blatt = engl. Leaf) and a series of 8 prints from the ‘Gallery of Travelling Leaves’.
Each Blattscape is an original, which the artist sews carefully over spacers on handmade paper (Hahnemühle), signed (title, number) and stamped.
Each piece from ‘Gallery of Travelling Leaves’ is a limited run of 10 is available in A4 size, signed, unframed, pigment printed on handmade paper (Hahnemühle), signed (title, number, edition) and stamped.
