"Solidarity" viewed from different perspectives: special exhibition in Poing
Created: 11/20/2022, 6:47 p.m
By: Armin Roesl
The “Solidarity” exhibition took place at the weekend.
© Johannes Dziemballa
Numerous artists responded to the appeal of the Respect@Poing action group to submit works on the subject of “solidarity”.
They were shown in an exhibition at the weekend.
Also included: a peace tower.
Poing - In the middle of the auditorium there is a tower about two meters high, built from many pieces of wood.
On the left, the impressive song “Papa” by the Poinger punk-acoustic duo Shots runs on a video screen in a continuous loop, in which Raffael Scherer and Ludwig Stadler sing from the point of view of a child about his right-wing radical father.
Photographs and paintings are displayed on easels and partitions in the auditorium.
It doesn't matter whether it's pictures, songs, installations or self-made bracelets: in this exhibition everything has to do with "solidarity".
That's the title of the exhibition that the Respect@Poing campaign group presented at the weekend in the auditorium of the Anni Pickert School.
As part of the "Weeks of Tolerance" of the Catholic District Education Center Ebersberg.
Scouts show their "Peace Tower".
© Johannes Dziemballa
The Windrose Anzing-Poing scout tribe burned the word "peace" into pieces of wood in 240 languages with a soldering iron, reports board member Dominik Hohl.
The "Peace Tower" is based on the Tower of Babel, a story from the Old Testament.
That tower was mankind's attempt to equal God.
God himself brought this to a bloodless standstill by causing a confusion of languages, so that people could no longer communicate and the project failed.
Visitors at the exhibition opening on Saturday.
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Dominik Hohl explains that 15 scouts were involved in building the tower for the Windrose tribe.
“Two soldering irons were used up due to all the burning,” he reports.
Before this manual work, however, there was still the research of the word "peace" in as many languages as possible - in order to then be able to burn the respective spelling into the wood.
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Natalja Herdt is a few meters away.
The winner of the 2021 Culture Prize of the municipality of Poing painted a picture showing a polar bear and a young person.
Back to back, facing the viewer.
"The future is threatened for both of them," says Herdt.
"For humans and animals.
For all species.” She wanted to express this with this picture.
Linked to the message: “Animals have just as much a right to the earth as humans do.” Humans do not have the right to destroy the earth.
Natalja Herdt: "The future of all species is under threat." © Johannes Dziemballa
The teenager in the picture is her own 14-year-old son, Herdt reveals.
His questioning, uncertain gaze represents the uncertain future of youth, of people, of the earth.
Another secret behind the picture: she produced the work completely sustainably, says Natalja Herdt: "I didn't buy any new colors or materials for it." She painted the picture on a wooden panel that came from an old shelf.
Peter Böhm shows his picture of Europe and the triptych.
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Three meters further, Peter Böhm from Anzing is gesturing.
He is an artist of technical chance, using by-products of vulcanization as a basis for his pictures and representations.
Rubber shapes and sculptures that fall out during the vulcanization process.
Combined with the wealth of ideas and the imagination of Ernst Böhm, unique, unusual works of art are created.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Ebersberg newsletter.)
For the “Tolerance” exhibition, he brought a triptych with a quote by the poet Eugen Roth: “People always wanted to be right: That’s how splitting the hair became the skull!” Böhm: “When I saw this waste product from the vulcanization machine , I immediately thought to myself: That goes with Eugen Roth's saying.” The structures on the first picture of the three-part panel are still harmonious, but in the other two pictures they fall apart into a tangle.
The opposite of solidarity.
Christina Tarnikas and Mayor Thomas Stark spoke at the opening.
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The intention of this exhibition is to look at the topic of “solidarity” from different perspectives – Christina Tarnikas said at the opening on Saturday morning.
She is the spokesperson for the Respect@Poing action group and thanked all participants for taking part.
"We were very pleased that so many people signed up." Almost 30 people/groups responded to the AG's call for this art event.
This is also intended as solidarity with artists so that they can show themselves again after the forced Corona break, said Tarnikas.
The exhibition was opened musically and happily by the drum group Jankara.
In his short speech, Poing's mayor Thomas Stark, who had taken on the patronage of the exhibition, thanked respect@poing not only for this exhibition: "I'm proud that the action group exists.
She is doing important work.”
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