Kabeltiere Andrea Christiani | phone +49 162 6142003
About
| 1962 | born in Berlin |
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| 1972 | discovered my talent as a handywoman while successfully(!) repairing a tape recorder |
| 1980 | A-levels, Berlin |
| 1981 | almost took courses in stage and graphics design |
| 1983 | while renovating my first apartment I grew to like home depot stores and working with different materials |
| 1985 | completed a degree in foreign-language studies in English and French |
| 1986 | first creative experiences as a self-employed designer for knitwear |
| 1987 - 2005 | found myself over and over again pottering about, sawing, making pottery, tinkering around, or painting |
| 2006 | A cable coming out of a wall finally triggered an explosion of my creative potential which had been laying idle for decades. Where other people are inclined to mount a light fixture, I clearly saw the rear end of a horse coming out of the wall. |
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The first cable creature was born!
The aftermath of this explosion can still be seen today – the horse has not remained alone for long. Experimenting with materials, colors, and dimensions - it is within this process when my creations take shape. The structures are altered and reassembled into a new story – and there will be many more to follow.
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Cables turn into animals – horses, dogs, cows, donkeys, cats, pigs, zebras, giraffes, lions, salamanders, geckos, chameleons. I use everyday objects such as acrylic and electrical wire caps to make them come alive and they immediately develop their own dynamics. Their playground and pasture is the canvas - in various sizes, a multitude of colorings and a variety of surfaces.
And no matter whether they are alone or in twos, in a herd or a pack, all cable creatures have this in common:
They go head-first through the wall!