“In Susanna’s paintings, you don’t just look at beautiful oils on canvas. You fall into larger worlds full of power and playful creatures”
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Susanna In Her Own Words:
I enter the canvas like an empty stage. So there exists also - of course- an off-stage area on the back of the canvas , and in the front you experience a living story that is told through me on this "stage canvas" with brush and paint.
I hope you’ll enjoy it as I do.
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THE ART OF PRESENCE
About Susanna's Work
As a young mother, Susanna Andreini made her dream come true, she decided to hold nothing back, she dedicated herself to her endeavor and walked her way to her very own art form. This “holding nothing back” is something that has fascinated people, this taking up the risk of the choice upon oneself and - in her case – how it results in an absolute, unperturbed, imperturbable creation of consistent poetry.
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Since 2003 she presented every year one or two world premieres from her own pen plays, puppet shows, vernissages, book presentations, films, installations, as well as interactive exhibitions.
In 2017 she took part in the Art Biennale in Venice with three sculptures and the art film “Woman in Red and the Awesome Oh!” It was about 2010 in her career as an artist, that her interest in sculpture grew stronger and she became more and more concerned with the question that “stage is everywhere”. - She started playing with the moving and the unmoving.
She asked herself questions like: How little does it take to make a sculpture that is solid in and of itself come alive?
Her rich and varied interdisciplinary work with visual and performing arts as well as with music and song is extremely impressive.
All her works delve deeply into the development of the human, especially the feminine.
They show deeply touching and at the same time forward-looking realities that reflect the human and the archetypal, and thus contribute significantly to the development and unfolding of people of all ages today.
Susanna faithfully follows her inner artistic voice, which allows her to explore and express new worlds again and again.
In 2019, she felt the inner call to paint. Since then she has been expressing her inner worlds, which are strongly connected to the collective field, in oil paintings. An exciting evolution in her broad and so profound body of work. Stories, characters, and portraiture continue to play a role in her painterly work, including soul portraits and painterly narratives of natural beings. It is probably no coincidence that her studio has been located at the foot of the legendary Untersberg near Salzburg.
Select Exhibitions
Past exhibits
2011 MORE THAN A PUPPET—Vernissage mit Buchpräsentation und Performances, Galerie Toplev, Salzburg
2012 OTTO MOTZT – FigurenKunstobjekte und Texte, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2013 LIVING PEOPLE – LES GENS VIVANTS – Die lebenden Leute, Ausstellung mit Buch & Performance in deutsch-englisch-französisch, The English Center, Salzburg
2014 FÜLLE und STILLE – Performance und Ausstellung zur Eröffnung der AtelierGalerie Susanna Andreini im Gutshof Glanegg
2017 PERSONAL STRUCTURES – Ausstellung und Filmpräsentation Im Rahmen der Art Biennale in Venedig 2017, Palazzo Mora mit drei FigurenKunstobjekten und dem Kunstfilm „Woman in Red and the Awesome Oh!“, Venice ,Italy
recent exhibits
2021 SIE.MALT. Ölgemälde einer Figurenfrau und Kunstprojekt für bewußtseinserweiterndes Schauen. Instagram: #SieMalt #Schauschule #SusannaAndreini
2021 Die Güte der Seele – Klang Bild Raum.
AUSSTELLUNG mit Performances, Gemälden und Marimbamusik
Martina Weninger und Susanna Andreini, Atelier Susanna Andreini im Gutshof Glanegg und Imbergstraße 53, Salzburg, Austria
2021 Lange Nacht der Philosophie – 18.11.2021, „Ich betrete die leere Leinwand wie eine Bühne“, Virtueller Gemäldespaziergang.
2022 Annäherungen an Stefan Zweig, Gruppenausstellung und Buch, Stefan-Zweig-Zentrum Salzburg.Group Show
from an interview WITH Susanna
Q: What are you searching for in your art?
A: What I'm searching for in my work and what I'm hopefully expressing in my figures, is human nature. I love the kind of craziness in the deepness of the human soul. And being a clowness myself, I always look for humor and lightness in my creations. What I'm also in love with is playing - playing with material, playing with the moving and the unmoved. So I work in sculptures and figures that can move to puppets on stage and the other way round. I'm interested in finding crossovers between diverse kinds of arts.
I often start working with a question about the material: Who are you? What do you want me to tell you? Sometimes the sculpture and I, do not agree on this point. All of them are shy and need to be loved and protected by myself revealing their secrets.
“Yes, on the “stage canvas” I now tell my stories - realities of soul worlds - mine? and - in any case collective, resonating with all.
And behold! - As creations of a now painting figure woman, it can probably not be otherwise - also here show faces, figures, beings of all kinds.
In oil paintings, which have called so strongly for me as their “mother”, now show “walkable landscapes”, into which the viewers can let themselves be deeply sucked in ,in order to recognize through a slow and consciousness-expanding show process the events, symbols, figures and essential existences inherent in the pictures - and to communicate with them, to allow themselves to be gifted by them.
For a year I have captured with the camera, again and again, my way of looking...It is my process of painting before painting...
So now the look of the artist can also become the look of an interested audience.
The entrance gate to this new world of looking is already in each and everyone.
The presentation start of the art project Sie. Malt. was on December 1, 2020 on Instagram - with my favorite quote from Erich Kästner: “Most people discard their childhood like an old hat. They forget it like a phone number that no longer applies. Only those who grow up and remain children are true human beings.”
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 27.6” x 35.4” (70 x 90cm)
Year: 2020