..For a number of years Anna Amadio has also been producing large felt-tip and colour pencil drawings, with rapid, almost dizzying strokes. At first they appear to
be free, unorganized compositions, only gradually do their interlocking construction layers become legible. They form series; recurring motifs – figures, animals, objects and structures – become visible in varying constellations, but they often only emerge from the grouped, layered strokes on the second or third look. Like differently remembered versions of a scene, loud and hushed situations appear: birds startled by a storm, figures chopping wood, a jungle, chairs flying around, a man pouring water over another – all in vibrating structures and strong, glowing colours..

Text Markus Frehrking

Photos Serge Hasenböhler