Details
| First Name | Andréa |
| Last Name | Azzi |
| Username | andreaazzi |
| Bio | (1964, Belo Horizonte – Bern) Andréa Azzi is a brazillian-swiss artist, cultural producer, and art director. Andréa started her work in the late 1980s producing paintings, multimedia installations and objects and has spent the last three decades living in Switzerland. Master in Culture and Media Studies from Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHDK) and a degree in Fine Arts from Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) Andréa Azzi has been back in Brazil since 2015.
Azzi’s approach in painting reflects a deep engagement with the intersection of natural beauty and environmental crisis. Her work, characterized by predominantly abstract forms, captures the essence of landscapes and their transformation under the shadow of environmental disasters. Her paintings evoke a sense of nostalgia and anxiety, depicting the beauty of familiar scenes while also addressing the imminent threats and uncertainties facing the environment. Through her artwork, she plays with the delicate balance between beauty and destruction.
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| Country of residence | Switzerland |
Statement
| Statement |
My work oscillates between the fascination for “Color Field Painting” of the 50’s, the hard edge Painting of the 60’s, the Abstract Painting and by Abstract Expressionism, Action Painting and, without a doubt, still bears characteristics of my influences from the 80’s – the years I started painting. Barnett Newman wrote, in 1948, a landmark statement about “Color Field Painting” entitled “The Sublime is Now”. In an age of ethical uncertainty (Post-Nazism and Fascism), artists should strive for absolute beauty (the sublime) – and Barnett asks: “If we refuse to live in the abstract, how can we create sublime art?” This questioning takes into account the historical context, but that is what I find in the abstract. An opening. There is no ready-made answer. There is the questionable. And Barnett continues: “We are freeing ourselves from the impediments of memory, association, nostalgia, legend, myth, or whatever, that have been the devices of Western European painting.»
In 2023 The Color Fields series takes on a new character that of «Landscapes» |