ANDREAS AMRHEIN
The Berlin based artist Andreas Amrhein grew up in Liberia, west Africa and comes from a 300 hundred year old family lineage of farmers. He studied in London, Malmö and Chicago. In the mid 1990's he worked on the 'Beijing - Berlin - Project,' and on behalf of Tan Ping's invitation he travelled to China.
Due to his very colourful upbringing Andreas Amrhein is a storyteller par excellence. In his strongly coloured works, he composes drawings within the painting and combines abstract ideas and ornament, flat characteristic forms with three dimensional executed figuration. Amrhein often paints landscapes, some appearing Asian, in the background using transparent colours, in which he arranges “obstinate” drawings with realistic painted figures in their immediate proximity.
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