Elvira Flamm

Germany

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I was born 1961 in Germany. From 1987-1998 I lived in Amsterdam, where I studied painting at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie. In 1998 I moved to Suriname for 16 years. Since 2014 I’m back in Germany and live in Berlin. My work deals with the basic conditions of nature, life and humanity. What is our spiritual and mental baggage and how do we use it? What in life is rather insignificant and what remains as the indispensable, essential and also the unavoidable core of life? The impressions and expieriences of living for 16 years in the tropics, a totally different way of life, influence my work and changed my perception of what I can take for granted and my notion of „reality“.
I have different kinds of work with different qualities. I like the flowing properties of watercolors, where things sometimes develope unforseen and on their own, and the pasty, earthy richness of acrylic paint. But sometimes my alchemistic tendencies take over and I experiment with all sorts of materials.
Elvira Flamm
2. B-SIDE V
$1,360
Painter, Conceptual Artist