Elisabeth Lex from Notzing has been giving painting courses at the adult education center in Erding for decades.
Now the artist is exhibiting her works there for the first time.
Erding – Elisabeth Lex has been working as a lecturer in art at the adult education center (VHS) Erding for 29 years.
She introduces up to twelve interested parties to creative topics per course.
Now the Notzinger is exhibiting her impressive works there for the first time.
Until September 30, she will be showing her pictures – daily from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. – under the unusual motto “#22”.
“I was fascinated by the number 22, as it symbolizes the years since 2000 in which I have designed, sketched and painted many things – always in a very special way,” explains the artist about the title of the exhibition.
From the large pool, she shows an impressive cross-section of her work, providing evidence of creative diversity.
On a wall on the ground floor, for example, different rose blossoms shine in a separate series, "based on a labyrinth, with their wonderful intertwining of leaves," says Lex. But they not only catch the viewer's eye with their strong red.
Right next to it they hang rather faded, or as the artist calls it: achromatic.
"It points to transience, to something that affects us all at some point." Around the next corner, again completely different, also roses - this time more materialistic and yet very abstract, with paint, threads, marble dust and artificial rust on aluminum dibond plates fixed.
Anyone who goes to the first floor discovers a whole new world of images: collages as a basis for human figures painted above.
Here, under the title “La Fassade”, the artist is concerned with the beautiful appearance of the fashion world.
Elisabeth Lex wants to show the actual emptiness behind the textile creativity so admired, a scene that often applauds itself because few really admire it.
The technology here is also special: "The vulnerability of the grande dame is captured on a wooden canvas, with the collage background on top of it, and finally, fragile figures fixed with wool threads and gauze." Here, the trained profession of seamstress helped her , says Lex. "My mother recommended this trade to me."
But now she is an artist with a brush and paint. In the picture "Burned out" she shows what a burnout would feel like if it could be represented visually: by means of gloomy tones.
Or, combined with the slogan "You are the Best", faces made of ink on a white background.
Some of them are blurred, meant to manifest the praise of low values, a celebration of vanity that can be so fragile.
Finally, a very special work of art that came about in a banal way.
"I was once in the Solnhofen quarries with a friend, marveled at the limestone slabs in Middle Franconia with their fossils and collected a few stones from there.
At some point I put them on a plate and fixed them in a total of ten layers.
The top one in gold.” Now the work is hanging on a wall, exuding quality.
Which of these representations Harry Seeholzer, artist colleague and third mayor of Erding, will also emphasize at the midissage on July 28, halfway through the exhibition: He will speak about an artist with many talents, of which she only has a small one at the adult education centre part can present.
If you want to see a lot more: www.atelier-lex.de.
Friedbert Holz