Showing posts with label Stadtmuseum Deggendorf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stadtmuseum Deggendorf. Show all posts

Thursday, September 10, 2015

Little escap(ad)e: Global Paper 3 in Deggendorf

It seems like it was ages ago that I last went into an art exhibit and wrote about that in this little series... But my husband and I were orphaned parents for ten days a couple of weeks ago, and we actually took the chance and went to see the Global Paper 3 exhibit in Deggendorf. It’s last instalment was very impressive, and I wrote about it here.

The Stadt-and Handwerksmuseum in Deggendorf is a two-house-combination which has shown interesting exhibitions in regular intervals, including several issues of the German Patchwork Guild’s regular exhibition “Tradition bis Moderne”.

When we entered the museum, the guard told us specifically that we were allowed to take pictures, but not to post them on the internet. So at first I thought I would be a good girl and stick to that rule – but when I returned home and checked on a couple of the artist’s names and websites, I found that their objects were all displayed on their sites. That’s when I waved all good intentions good-bye.


So here are a few impressions from this issue of the show:

Kegelhalsgefäß #4 von Roswitha Berger-Gentsch

An array of 'tablets' made from cardboards:
De mirabilibus mundi (The wonders of the world), by
Irina Spelleken

With this one, the cast of the shadows of course adds tremendously to the impact of the work:

"100% vegan", Irene Rammensee

Here is a view into the exhibition room in the Handwerksmuseum:



This arrangement of paper cuts tricks you at first, until you bother to take a closer look :

"...wenn ich den Himmel nicht erreichen kann..." (If I can't reach the sky),
Madeleine Schollerer


detail

"Rote Liste" (Red List of current medication), Helene Tschacher

Kariert 1 + 2, Harald Metzler
It's amazing what you can do with paper! I immediately wanted to take up that medium - if I had more time. Looking at these pieces will have to do, though - great show, well worth the trip!

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Little escap(ad)e: Global Paper 2 in Deggendorf


Last Sunday the unfavourable weather forecast stalled our original plans for the family outing to the lake. Instead, we decided we were going to go see the exhibition Global Paper 2, which is currently on display in Deggendorf.  Until the end of this week only, so hurry up! Deggendorf is a town about 60 km to the east, at the foot of the Bavarian Forest, and they have a very interesting “Stadt- und Handwerkermuseum” (City museum and museum of artisanry) where I have seen interesting exhibitions before. This exhibition on paper art was definitely worth the trip.

Already the first sculpture that you see upon entry, “dance in black” by Heike Schaefer 
is fascinating in its construction. Narrowly cut carton paper, glued back together and painted over.



Paper had been knotted

"Chain reaction", Angelika Wolpert, detail

sewn together

"Traveling Cushion", Ulrike Lindner

"Traveling Cushion", detail

folded into the most extraordinary shapes

"Natural Cabinet", Elisabeth Oberrauch, detail

run over by a truck in a piece by Kathleen Loomis (not the quilter, but a namesake), cut up in various ways

"Tschirp", Sarah Schiffer -
do you recognize the two little birds at the bottom,
each filling the air with their song?

"Twenty Five", Alison Harper (one part of three) -
cut up paper coffee cups

rolled up in various ways 

"storehouse of joy", Valerie Buess

"Souvenir 4", Michèle Soutif
  
"Carrying away", Irmgard Potthoff
"Carrying away", detail

and many many others.
I had never really thought about how much can be made out of and done with paper.
Very inspiring! A beautifully-made catalogue can be purchased for just under 20 euros.