As part of the virtual exhibition, the images in the categories on the pages of the law firm Sven Adam change regularly.
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Former exhibition
Earth Sign Project
About the exhibition
Project EARTH MARK
Dr. Karin Lina Adam, Sandrino Sandinista Sander
The EARTH SIGNS project: What we call the Earth came into being entirely without us. Over unimaginable periods of time, millions and billions of years in Earth's history, new landscapes constantly emerged, and new animals and plants continually evolved.
The forces from within the Earth and the shaping of the Earth's crust from the outside formed the rocks. With their organic remains, they bear witness to life long past. The process of internal pressure and erosion due to extreme weather conditions repeated itself again and again until the sedimentary rocks and soils we find on the Earth's surface today were formed.
The earth paintings on large-format canvases by the two artists Karin Lina Adam and Sandrino Sandinista Sander are inspired by geological-paleontological as well as ethnological interest and the passion for traveling to distant countries and landscapes.
The techniques used in the images partly reflect geomorphologically effective forces that enable abstract organic forms.
Questions repeatedly arise during the creative process – about the nature and composition of specific earths, the origin of their colors, and the possible interpretations of structures that seemingly appear randomly on the canvas. In this context, it seems by no means a coincidence that art and science meet in their search for clues, in order to jointly "lift the veil of appearances.".
Alongside scientific motivations, experimentally and artistically formulated questions about the cultural process play an important role. The exploration of decay and modification of purely urban structures hints at a utopian vision of a new, urban, cultivated "rurality," pointing to future possibilities that will gradually resolve the rift between humanity and nature.
Reflecting on the Western-influenced understanding of nature also includes addressing the process of transforming natural landscapes into cultural landscapes. Organic to amorphous structures are contrasted with linear ones.
The creative process for each painting is different, sometimes playfully figurative or impulsive like action painting, or calmly structured in a reflective process. Humanity and the earth seem to enter into an intense dialogue here. The paintings often document intuitive processes, recall the poetic power of the visual language of indigenous peoples, and sometimes their forms are vegetal and floral – and finally, an imaginative approach to scientific structural insights can be discerned.
On moistened canvas, the earths unfold imprints, natural lines and warm colors.
The shaping of the abrasions and imprints with deliberate lines results in abstract color landscapes in some of the works. Other works exhibit a stricter linework and, through the highlighting of the warm light of the earth and the shading with plant oils, achieve an almost mystical staging, consciously contrasting it with societal coldness and economically undermined reflections of warmth.
Sandrino Sandinista Sander and Karin Lina Adam have been creating earth paintings for almost two decades. For about eight years now, Sandrino S. Sander in particular has been involving other artists and art enthusiasts in the fascination and creative experiences with earth and places in his earth painting school.
For about four years now, the two artists have been delving into even deeper layers of the earth, so to speak: the realm of rocks. Their friendship and creative collaboration with Prof. Dr. Reitner, who teaches at the University of Göttingen and has established a museum and an extensive rock collection at its geosciences center, led to the project "GeoTräume" (GeoDreams), in which the dialogue between artes et disciplinae (art and science) – in this case, earth painting or painting with rock flour and geosciences – opens up new spaces for understanding nature.
Since 2000, the "Millennium Project" ARS NATURA, art along a long-distance hiking trail, has been underway, and upon completion, it will connect five German states. As initiators and curators of the art trail, which currently spans 150 kilometers, Karin Lina Adam and Sandrino Sandinista Sander strive for a sensitive dialogue with the nature accessible to us.
However, the two artists do not understand nature in their projects as "out in the countryside, in the forests and fields"; rather, they are convinced that the hierarchical distinction between man and nature must be abolished.
