“Susanna can express the essence of the human condition in ways that I have not seen before. Her art is captivating and touches on several emotions simultaneously.”
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Gerold Tusch about Susanna Andreini:
The figures are often funny, strange, sad, scary but they stand before us with dignity and honour. With her figure design and presentation, Susanna Andreini offers us the option of a lovable approach in dealing with human characteristics which seem hardly loveable to us at first. She does this, not in a naive way, yet innocently, in the best sense of the word, beyond cuteness.
The figures are made up of a head – a face – with eyes, which look at us – that is the first thing we notice. The second part of their character, their body, is constituted of consciously chosen elements: they are “all dress”, cocktail glass, flowerpot, only hand, and foot or an egg, sewn up taut in pinstripe. Every detail becomes a cryptic bearer of meaning, significantly legible.
In the formation, these things, materials and accessories are fused, brought together within the creation process rather often by intuition to become – a figure. They are tried on and thrown off and complement, in the end with concern for every detail, the multi-layered meaning of the figure. That is how the body is abstracted, separated from its actual outlines, transformed into symbolic information. That is how the figures are devoid of cliché.
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THE ART OF PRESENCE
About Susanna's Work
Even as a child Susanna knew deep down that she was a musical person – actress, writer, painter, singer, sculptor, ....all together, yes, that's what she wanted to become!
She’s also experienced perceptions that her environment did not always understand, classified as "very imaginative" – and which can only be described with today's knowledge of human consciousness.
Until it was time to enter the stage of the world as an artist and clairvoyant mentor for potential development, voice, and presence, she had to take many, often winding paths. Today, Susanna’s grateful for the crisis she had to go through in the ’90s because it opened the gates to all the happy worlds in which she lives today. This is what the competencies she holds for today look like: her high sensitivity and clairvoyance – Her reflected artist hood as the essence of herself – The Art of Presence – furthermore a study of German and Romance Studies, Clowning, body and voice work at the International School TUT for Dance, Theatre & Clowning, from Hanover – voice and singing with Catarina Lybeck, Yella Schwarzer, Elli Schuen, Visual Arts at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg/Hallein, over a decade of theatre collaboration with Walter Anichhofer, LeCoq School Paris.
Her work as an artist and mentor includes Analytical archetype work and transformation according to C.G. Jung – energy-intuition and light work – streaming – shamanic doing – lap space work according to Mayonnah Bliss, Grandmother Arapata, and Gabi Pröll, among others, as well as goddess work and femininity work according to Chamelie Ardagh (Awakening Women) – understanding of womanhood and manhood according to Alison Armstrong, work with the soul house method as well as reading in the Morphic Field according to Birgit Haufer.
And then, of course, diverse experiences on a wide variety of large and small stages as well as since 2000 in coaching & mentoring – also in short: Everything she has learned, she learned from life! Susanne continues to develop all this constantly and vividly in her work... Welcome to her universe!
Susanna Andreini Live
“Creating a character is a very intimate conversation, often without words between me and this being that exists in the empty space. This being which experiences - so to say - an artistic birth through my mind, my body, my eyes, my tenderness for it, my hands giving birth to it into our world. I think this is why people can recognize the figures, they feel connected with them on a deeper layer, an archetypic layer where we all meet.
I remember very beautiful experiences between me and visitors to my studio or collectors of my art when we both felt that there was a touching – immediately - just through watching - with the eyes and the heart. The inner spaces opened up so deeply. People started to cry, suddenly deeply touched in their capacity for happiness...and that makes me very happy, too.”
Susanna’s book is available in limited edition, it is written in French, English, and German, the cost of the book signed is $85 per copy.
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Select Exhibitions
Past exhibits
2011 MORE THAN A PUPPET Vernissage mit Buchpräsentation und Performances, Galerie Toplev, Salzburg.
2012 OTTO MOTZT – FigurenKunstobjekte und Texte, Museum der Moderne Salzburg
2013 LIVING PEOPLE – LES GENS VIVANTS – Die lebenden Leute, Ausstellung mit Buch & Performance in deutsch-englisch-französisch, The English Center, Salzburg
2014 FÜLLE und STILLE – Performance und Ausstellung zur Eröffnung der AtelierGalerie Susanna Andreini im Gutshof Glanegg
2017 PERSONAL STRUCTURES – Ausstellung und Filmpräsentation Im Rahmen der Art Biennale in Venedig 2017, Palazzo Mora mit drei FigurenKunstobjekten und dem Kunstfilm „Woman in Red and the Awesome Oh!“, Venice ,Italy
recent exhibits
2021 SIE.MALT. Ölgemälde einer Figurenfrau und Kunstprojekt für bewußtseinserweiterndes Schauen. Instagram: #SieMalt #Schauschule #SusannaAndreini
2021 Die Güte der Seele – Klang Bild Raum.
AUSSTELLUNG mit Performances, Gemälden und Marimbamusik
Martina Weninger und Susanna Andreini, Atelier Susanna Andreini im Gutshof Glanegg und Imbergstraße 53, Salzburg, Austria
2021 Lange Nacht der Philosophie – 18.11.2021, „Ich betrete die leere Leinwand wie eine Bühne“, Virtueller Gemäldespaziergang.
2022 Annäherungen an Stefan Zweig, Gruppenausstellung und Buch, Stefan-Zweig-Zentrum Salzburg.Group Show
Susanna’s World
ABOUT SUSANNA ANDREINI
Susanna Andreini is a figure artist, actress, singer, voice acrobat, and author - and she impresses with the diversity of her artistic expression as well as the versatility of her skill.
In 2003 Susanna founded the Salzburger Figurentheater “Salzburg puppet theater”. She created and built her own lovable characters; she writes the original stories herself and achieves them through the mix, from the familiar and the new, philosophical and fine humor, reality and fantasy people of all ages.
Her performance in puppet theater is unobtrusively sustainable: a well-thought-out overall concept, implemented empathically in the harmonious combination of the individual creative elements; skillful acting with high sensitivity for their young audience in a club with an imaginatively stimulating stage and expressive figures.
In the creative studios and workshops, she accompanied children and young people in finding their creative spaces and in their creative processes. She caters to young people promoting a good quality environment and know-how to use their imagination and boost their self-confidence. Because concrete and living experiences at the place of figure events enable lasting experiences that contribute to the creative self-expression and development of artists.
Susanna herself continues to develop herself and her work, and for some years now she has been offering special mentoring for artists and even a Private Master for artists.
Take a look at Susanna creating and hear from her directly in the short film: Susanna Andreini - Worlds of The Soul
from an interview WITH Susanna
Q: What are you searching for in your art?
A: What I'm searching for in my work and what I'm hopefully expressing in my figures, is human nature. I love the kind of craziness in the deepness of the human soul. And being a clown myself, I always look for humor and lightness in my creations. What I'm also in love with is playing - playing with material, playing with the moving and the unmoved. So I work in sculptures and figures that can move to puppets on stage and the other way round. I'm interested in finding crossovers between diverse kinds of arts.
I often start working with a question about the material: Who are you? What do you want me to tell you? Sometimes the sculpture and I do not agree on this point. All of them are shy and need to be loved and protected by myself revealing their secrets.
“Creating a character is a very intimate conversation, often without words between me and this being that exists in the empty space. This being which experiences - so to say - an artistic birth through my mind, my body, my eyes, my tenderness for it, my hands giving birth to it into our world. I think this is why people can recognize the figures, they feel connected with them on a deeper layer, an archetypic layer where we all meet.
I remember very beautiful experiences between me and visitors to my studio or collectors of my art when we both felt that there was a palpable emotion, a touch–
immediately - just through watching - with the eyes and the heart. The inner spaces opened up so deeply. People started to cry, suddenly deeply touched in their capacity for happiness...and that makes me very happy, too.”