Preview: Andrea Wan – Fleeting Seasons @ BC Gallery

We are excited to announce the solo show “Fleeting Seasons” by Berlin-based artist Andrea Wan, the first exhibition hosted this year by BC Gallery, opening Thursday, January 15th, 6 pm, and running through February 28th, 2015.

In her upcoming show, the artist was inspired by the old idea of ‘Vanitas’. Andrea Wan explores the themes of transience and the eternal circle of life and death, depicting growth, transformation and decay in nature and the human body. These topics interest the artist, “who considers the unpredictable nature of growth, impermanent beauty and decay fascinating and yet terrifying”.

The works are created in her beautiful graphic style, which is mostly achieved through mixing black and white and color drawings with ink and gouache, enriched with various elements and symbols – “she combines figures, plants and otherworldly landscapes against the white void”.

 

‘Eternal Love’,  acrylic ink on paper, 113 x 86 cm, 2015

 

‘The  Course of Time’,  acrylic ink on paper, 113 x 86 cm, 2015

 

About the artist

Despite her young age, Andrea Wan has already lived a very cosmopolitan life. Born in Hong Kong in 1985, she moved to Vancouver at the age of 10 where she grew up into a completely different culture. Upon graduating in film studies she decided to go to Europe to study half a year longer in design and illustration in Denmark. During this time she also started experimenting a lot, which made her grow as an artist and let her develop her distinguished, surreal style. In 2012 Wan decided to make Berlin her home base from where she still keeps on travelling a lot. The content of her art also correlates with the idea of a perpetual change and that even identity is not necessarily a permanent thing.

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