SOS!

Artistic call for help against the flood of plastic

Created: 05/28/2022, 12:02 p.m

A huge call for help against the increasing pollution of the world with plastic has been hanging on the "cradle of Starnberg" on Bahnhofstrasse since Thursday.

The artists (from left) Paulo de Brito, Maria Rosina Lamp, Angelika Hubner and Helmi Iwan are taking part in the “Plastic-free – be there!” campaign week with large and small works of art.

Photo: Andrea Jaksch © Andrea Jaksch

"Plastic-free - be there!": That's the motto of an action week of the adult education centers Starnberger See, Straubing and Aschaffenburg, which starts next Monday, May 30th (see article at the bottom of this page).

The two artists Maria Rosina Lamp and Paulo de Brito followed the call from the adult education center and Starnberg’s cultural office manager Petra Brüderl – and so those interested can admire what the artists have created from recycling material in a joint exhibition in the de Britos studio at Bahnhofstraße 1.

The title says it all.

"Plastic?

Phantastic”, is the title of the colorful show.

Starnberg

- "The material is on the street," says Rosina Lamp and thinks that "cheap production is simply not allowed anymore".

Around her neck she wears beautifully designed costume jewelery made from zip-top cans, and on her tour of the show, the first thing she points to is the world's best-selling plastic chair.

Everybody knows him.

Everyone has sat in a chair like this.

1500 such chairs are now made within 24 hours.

Production costs: 2.50 euros.

Weight: 2.5 kilos.

Everyone produces 45 kilograms of plastic waste every year and even in death none of the plastic flood can survive.

Some of the coffins and floral decorations are also made of plastic.

"The end of the song" is a "natura morta" in which even the asphalt is made of plastic, explains de Brito.

"Humanity relies on plastic as the solution to all problems."

"Not only avoid plastic, but ban it," demanded Starnberg's Deputy Mayor Angelika Kammerl at the exhibition opening on Thursday.

"There are hardly any fish that don't have microplastics in them." Kammerl thinks it's really "great" that the VHS is now taking up this topic in various areas.

What can you see in the exhibition?

Host Paulo de Brito shows a room installation that makes us aware that plastic accompanies us from birth to death.

A plastic baby sits on a throne made of strands of wire, two rubber dolls as Adam and Eve are stuck in a plastic duct and a sunflower suffocates in the asphalt.

In addition, the earth's cry for help: “Let me breathe!” – an installation with a globe and rubber gloves, which warns the viewer that humans are playing a dangerous game with the earth.

Fittingly, Maria Rosina Lamp's Venus piles a mountain of yellow sacks in front of a plaster Venus, a plastic-waste-filled goddess of love, a reminder that Venus, as the warmest planet in our solar system, is shrouded in a toxic atmosphere.

The 300 plastic bags that were collected in shopping centers around the world are poison for the environment.

Angelika Hubner sewed them together into a 50 square meter "SOS" call for help.

3.8 kilograms light is the striking request to reconsider your own consumer behavior.

The installation hangs above the magenta colored "cradle of Starnberg" in front of the studio.

The costume designer also presents fashions crocheted from magnetic tapes from video cassettes and sewn from umbrella silk.

Then there is the "Family Plexi" made of plastic waste, which Helmi Iwan made as a toy for the whole family, and various small sculptures by Sabina Schrenker, whose cheerful figures are based on Niki de Saint Phalle.

Findings of the exhibition: Plastic is as colorful as life and an inspiring material that awakens the child in the artist.

The exhibition “Plastic?

Fantastic.

Installation.

objects.

Video" can be seen until June 19: Friday to Sunday from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.

This Saturday, May 28, at 4 p.m., a textile performance with Angelika Hubner can be seen (only if the weather is dry), on Thursday, June 2, in cooperation with the Starnberg Cultural Office, the slide show “Of the largest rays in the world and the smallest dangers of the ocean: microplastics".

Starts at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Astrid Amelungse-Kurth