Andrea Colleti is an experience painter living and working in Berlin. His mixed origins, Italian Father and English mother, gives him an unusual personnality, a cocktail of latin and saxon culture.
He has been painting mainly abstract compositions with an amazing skill, alike a patchwork, placing and using his own vibrant colours. He sees the painting as a language to communicate and plays with textures. He likes to test and experience to see what the result of his work is. Searching brings him to make mistakes that lead into another path and widen his perception of painting. Andrea likes to pour and drip and squash and layer and glue, he follows his instinct. Amazingly he still discovers new possibilities on the canvas today.
He has recently started to do quick portraits with the use of a window. The subject sits behind the glass and he traces the lines he sees. I played the game and sat in front of this window. Andrea continued to explain as he was drawing, that this has been a way to make a little money, as it is not so simple to survive from his art.
He has been working in the Kunsthaus for a long time. He experienced many changes in the house and has grown from this time. He has discovered other artists and discusses with curiosity any topic.
Andrea is a passionate man, who likes to reinvent his work every day. He works today in his home studio and comes regurlarly to the Tacheles to play bass and share emotions. His paintings can be seen in the Welt Urlaub on the ground floor. He is generous and had pleasure talking to the audience that stayed and listened with great interest. He knows how to captivate with words and explains easily what his ideas are about art.
" Everyone has an individual experience in front of a painting. Everyone is unique" he says.
