An open-air art gallery could be admired on the weekend between Attenkirchen and Thalham.
A liberation for many exhibitors and visitors.
Attenkirchen
- There is something magical about a mile. Not just for athletes. And not only when it comes to the “sinful mile”. The magic mile in Attenkirchen is the “artist's mile”. On the weekend the large-scale art and culture project of Tutuguri could be experienced - 58 artists on the 1.6 kilometer long Bockerlradweg between Thalham and Attenkirchen. A "kickstart" after the lockdowns.
They didn't want to miss a small but festive opening of the two-day event on Saturday: Heiko Lange from the Tutuguri cultural association emphasized that they had been annoyed for many months because culturally nothing was possible.
And so the idea of the “artist mile on the railway embankment” was born, which in turn was selected as a “kickstart” project by Uferlos GmbH and Freisinger Bank.
Thanks to financial support, the artists did not have to pay stand fees and visitors did not have to pay admission.
Therefore, according to Lange's wish to the guests: "Have fun and enjoy it!"
Way back to normal social life
The fact that art is not the cream on the cake, but the yeast in the dough - Attenkirchen's mayor Mathias Kern converted this statement by Johannes Rau into praise for Tutuguri: “The dough has risen.” The association has set a starting point with the artist's mile for the way back to a normal social life.
Culture connects people, the two days connect the entire community, says Kern.
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Pepito Anumu was also creative in the lockdown.
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And the opening wasn't really over yet, when a lot of interested people were already making a pilgrimage between Attenkirchen and Thalham, looking to the right and left where pictures, photographs, sculptures and ceramics were exhibited, chatting with the exhibiting artists and simply enjoying life - also at the drinks stand, in the sound bath in the tunnel or in front of the two stages. In the middle of the mile - number 31 - Pepito Anumu was to be found: He had come because his friend Enno Messerschmitt (on number 39) had called. Among other things, the Freising artist brought a work to Attenkirchen that was created in 2020 during the first lockdown. Title: "Lockdown or Knockdown". In an interview with visitors, Anumu gave the answer: "It was clearly a knockdown". The picture shows a mother, alone.Your children - hidden in the picture. Can he get anything positive out of the pandemic? “I've worked a lot, a lot,” says Anumu. And so many wonderful pictures were created.
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Art on the fence: Emanuel Maxstadt is happy to be able to show his works to an audience again.
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For Gertraud Wagner, an artist from Nandlstadt, it was balm for the soul to finally bring her pictures back into the fresh air.
Because: “A picture has to be seen.” Her longing for her pictures to be seen grew bigger and bigger during the lockdowns.
Your way of dealing with it?
"I took photos of the pictures and sent them via WhatsApp." And although before the pandemic she had never been out to use all of the display options, she now clearly feels "that I want to seize every chance to show my pictures" .
Her personal conclusion after more than one and a half years of pandemic and three lockdowns: "Corona has made me more alive as an artist."
Finally being able to present pictures again - Emanuel Maxstadt was also delighted: he should have had an exhibition recently in Munich, but it also fell victim to the pandemic.
So now Attenkirchen - and Maxstadt is happy about it.
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Peter Fischer protected his art from rain.
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Now such an exhibition in the open air is always a matter of the weather.
But the artists were prepared for rain showers; practically all of them had brought large plastic sheets with them, which, in the worst-case scenario, were quickly pulled over the works of art to protect them from moisture.
But you couldn't just look on the artists' mile - you could also hear, join in and sing yourself.
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Annemarie Hagn played songs to sing along.
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Annemarie Hagn, for example, not only brought her accordion, but also Helmut Pokorny and “Bridge Songs to Sing Along”, Andy Hermann repeatedly created soundscapes in the tunnel on the Attenkirchen side, there was world music by Chakulou and opera singing by Michael Waldenmaier, Streetsamba with Safado , Catchy tunes from the Grantl trio and lectures like that by Hans Helmut Holzner on trees and forests, and and and.
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