Bad Tölz: Artists from different backgrounds give a new look at the world at the exhibition
Created: 09/20/2022, 17:00
Gallery owner Nour Nouri (left) is showing works by the Latvian artist Natalja Nouri (right, can be seen in the background).
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From China to Latvia: New exhibition in Bad Tölz in the "Pashmin Art Gallery" shows works by the very different artists Günther Uecker, Wang Shaojun and Natalja Nouri.
Bad Tölz –
Can art change the world?
That's an exciting question.
It can do at least one thing: encourage people to change their view of the world and of people.
This is shown by the new exhibition in the “Pashmin Art Gallery” in Tölz.
This is also shown by the exhibitions of the street artist JR in Munich's Hypo-Kunsthalle and the Documenta 15 in Kassel, which are currently causing a stir.
Why?
Because they convey a different view of things, of the wealth and poverty of this world, the exploitation of people and resources, and the consequences of colonialism, and they portray the faces of the nameless and those without rights.
What are these previews for?
In his Tölz exhibition "Symbolic Art - From East to West", the well-known gallery owner Nour Nouri, who comes from Iran and lives in Hamburg, also believes that "art can change and connect with the power of its symbols".
He said that at the vernissage on Saturday.
But Nouri does not take the path of provocation, but rather relies on mutual understanding and international understanding.
Artists of different backgrounds and cultural backgrounds
In this exhibition he has juxtaposed three artists, Günther Uecker, Wang Shaojun and Natalja Nouri, who could hardly be more different due to their origin, cultural background, life experience and perspectives.
Moderator Christine Adler praised Nouri as a "networker for human encounters".
The 92-year-old Günther Uecker, who is one of the most important German artists of the post-war period, was a student of Josef Beuys and is a friend of Gerhard Richter, is represented by a number of lithographs – embossed with screen printing on handmade paper.
As a child, the Mecklenburger was strongly influenced by the war and has been committed to international understanding and world peace throughout his life.
In his exhibited works, the "Peace Commandments", Uecker depicts verses from the Old and New Testaments, the Koran and the Hebrew Torah.
For reasons of age, however, he could not come to Bad Tölz.
The Chinese painter and sculptor Wang Shaojun was also not present in person.
The Hamburg art historian Marc Cremer-Thursby, who introduced the work of the three artists in a competent and generally understandable way, interpreted Shaojun's images and formal language against the background of Zen Buddhism.
Shaojun's figures are an eye-catcher in the exhibition: Small to larger than life figures in conforming, extremely simple unisex suits, as they are known in the West from the era of Mao Tse-Tung, bald and mostly in the company of pets.
Cremer-Thursby introduced ancient Chinese philosophy, which was characterized by full, conscious awareness of the moment, mindfulness without judgement, and full concentration on the mundane.
Natalja Nouri, on the other hand, comes from Latvia.
Her work is influenced entirely by her spiritual examination of scientific and mystical ideas.
It deals with the duality of man between body and mind as well as good and evil.
Her technically very skilful pictures are characterized by geometric structures and an almost mathematical order.
It contains many theological, cosmological, kabbalistic and natural mystical allusions and symbols.
(R Bannier)
Further information
The Pashmin Art Gallery is at Säggasse 7. The exhibition runs until October 22nd.
It is open on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. and on weekends from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission is free.
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