Andrea Imwiehe - Fragments of a garden_17

Fragments of a Garden
Technique: mixed technique on canvas / textured painting ground

In Fragments of a Garden, floral motifs merge with traces of time and impermanence to form a poetic commentary on memory and the fleeting nature of beauty. The work's formal language and surface texture evoke the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s, where simple materials and expressive handling of materiality played central roles. As with artists of this movement, the material itself becomes a bearer of meaning — cracked plaster, coarse textures, and peeling paint tell of erosion, decay, and at the same time, the value of the everyday.

The flowers – reduced in their presentation – appear as fragile remnants of a poetic moment. In their reduction, they evoke Japanese aesthetics like wabi-sabi, which seek beauty in imperfection and transience. At the same time, the work evokes associations with wall fragments from antiquity or even frescoes, where only parts of the original depiction remain – as in Pompeii, where floral motifs frequently appeared on interior walls.

The background consists of a warm, cream-colored tone with strong texture elements: torn or roughened surfaces, deliberately roughly plastered areas, and traces of wall structure create an atmosphere of both weathering and preservation.

The work moves between nature observation and trace preservation. The composition appears calm and minimalist, yet full of small details that tell stories upon closer inspection. It evokes a moment of pause – like a yellowed excerpt from a former garden, preserved on a piece of wall.



The artwork at a glance:

From the series 'Fragments of a Garden' — impressions of memory spaces in unique painting.
Acrylic painting, thickly applied and spatula-processed - surface texture created with sand.
Painted on high-quality canvas, ready to hang immediately.
Signed on the back, numbered, and accompanied by all image information.
Shipping is carried out professionally wrapped in tissue paper and bubble wrap.
Certificate of authenticity included

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Andrea Imwiehe, winner of the art prize of AOK Nordost, Berlin/Brandenburg, and recipient of a scholarship from the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop, is a graduate of the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. She has been passionately engaged with painting since her youth and now lives and works in a studio in the old imperial post office in the heart of Berlin.

Your acrylic paintings are inspired by personal memory but go beyond these. Their aim is to create an atmosphere through painting.
Your artworks are today part of numerous private collections and have been exhibited in galleries, museums, and renowned art exhibitions. https://artfacts.net/artist/andrea-imwiehe/383311