Andrea Fröhlich
In English"doing things with things"
The motivation for Andrea Fröhlich, geb. 1977, for working creativ and artistic is the gap between her ideas and the things/objects. On one side, there are the ensemble of objects ans things, the pictures, with which one is living and gets in contact, they are, how they are. On the other side - they could be different. Doing things with things, is what she is interested in. This constructivistic approch as a backround opens the field to work with diffrent media and motivations.
As a technique for to create her picture-worlds she uses, by now for the last ten years, a tipe of monoprinting: Fröhlich designs shapes of paper and prints layer by layer – every time a distinct colour. Beside this tecnic she does more conceptural works, like "publicitiy without public" - a advertising column in the forst, where nobody passes by. Another faszination is using existings object, which are not useful any longer. An old haycart turns into a caravan for to sleep in summer, old parts of metal into candelholder or old machines into bookshelfs. As an arthistorian she also writes textes about young artists and lokal artist, by focusing on thinking them from different perspectivs.
As her first profession she was working as a social worker. Just afterwards she studied, with great interest and fascination, History of Art in Vienna. Since she finished she is working parttime in the Ars Electronica Center, Linz, in the department for cultural education.
