Andrea Krauß - Fragments of a garden_28 *no reserve*

Title: Fragments of a Garden
Technique: Mixed media on wood / structured painting ground

In Fragments of a Garden, floral motifs merge with traces of time and transience into a poetic comment on memory and the fleeting nature of beauty. The work, in its formal language and surface texture, recalls the Arte Povera movement of the 1960s, in which simple materials and expressive handling of materiality played central roles. As with artists from this movement, here too the material itself becomes a bearer of meaning – cracked plaster, coarse textures and flaking paint narrate erosion, decay, and at the same time the value of the everyday.

The blossoms – reduced in their depiction – appear as fragile remnants of a poetic moment. In their reduction, they evoke Japanese aesthetics such as wabi-sabi, which seek beauty in imperfection and impermanence. At the same time, the work evokes associations with wall fragments from antiquity or with frescoes, where only parts of the original depiction have been preserved – such as in Pompeii, where floral motifs often appeared on interior walls.

The background consists of a warm, cream color with strong textural elements: roughened surfaces, intentionally roughly plastered areas, and traces of delicate drawing directly in the paint, like sunk relief, creating an atmosphere of weathering and preservation at once.

The work moves between nature observation and the safeguarding of traces. The composition appears calm and reduced, yet full of small details that tell stories when viewed closely. It recalls a moment of pause – like a yellowed excerpt from a previous 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 impastoed with a spatula - surface texture through sand
- painted on high-quality wooden ground, ready to hang
- signed on the back
- professionally packed for shipping in bubble wrap
- certificate of authenticity included

Andrea Krauß, winner of the AOK Nordost Berlin/Brandenburg Art Prize and a fellow at the Lukas Künstlerhaus in Ahrenshoop, is a graduate of the Braunschweig University of Art. She has been passionately engaged with painting since her youth and now lives and works in an studio in the old imperial post office in the heart of Berlin.

Her acrylic paintings, which focus on the beauty of nature, are inspired by her own memory but go beyond it. Her aim is to create an atmosphere through painting.
Her works are today part of numerous private collections and have been shown in galleries, museums and renowned art exhibitions.