In spring Eva-Maria Wawatschek moved into her new studio in the industrial area of Gelting.
It's square, practical, good.
.Gelting - Eva-Maria Wawatschek is tidy and tidy.
Your little works of art are often packaged, labeled and labeled.
Her studio, which has been newly occupied since spring, in a rear building in the industrial area of Gelting, is a few meters square, practical, good.
A table, a chair and little drawers everywhere, in which she keeps material for her collage-like works.
“I need small things to be organized,” says the meticulously working art teacher. Eva-Maria Wawatschek produces works with titles such as “Art Machines”, “Hunger Calendar”, “Food Insects with Package Leaflets” and “Folded Zebras in Leporello Formats”. As unusual and apparently cute as these artistic gems are, they always have profound statements. They combine humor with confrontation. Wawatschek focuses on topics such as change, perfection, people, animals and the environment.
It was a happy coincidence that the native of Rosenheim, after completing her studies - free sculpture and teaching in art education at the Nuremberg Art Academy - received an offer from the St. Matthias School Center in Waldram. She works part-time as an art teacher. The now 34-year-old has lived in Wolfratshausen since 2016 and, in addition to her school work, is involved in museum education and her free artistic work.
Eva-Maria Wawatschek's minimalist pencil graphics, etchings, ink paintings and “sewing pictures” - these are drawings with colored details and hand-sewn lines made of threads - have a clear message in illustrative and striking representation. This is how she interprets the work and contact ban of artists in a Corona edition. This includes, for example, an emergency bill for artists. Mona Lisa's face is hidden behind a mask. “After all, she was also forbidden to make contact in the closed Louvre,” the artist interprets.
The lullaby by the Oberammergau music group Kofelgschroa inspired Wawatschek to create her “sleep edition”.
It is a small booklet with illustrated sleeping positions in bed, in the office, on flowers and in the coffin (“If your lifetimes are too short for sleep, bring them to your grave”).
And with the “hunger calendar”, Eva-Maria Wawatschek dealt with the human need “which regularly plagues one and often goes by” with playful words and visual language.
As delicate as the artist may be in terms of color and expression - in her studio in Gelting, the little things are very important.
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