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Petra Zunterer wants to encourage critical reflection with her fabric objects.
She presents everyday objects in a completely new light.
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The Freising artist Petra Zunterer has dedicated herself to creative fabric sculptures in her latest exhibition in the Galerie am Lindenkeller: a small paradise of sensuality.
Freising – everyday objects are presented in a completely new light.
A “collection” on a clothes rail is the first thing that catches the eye.
It’s not “catwalk fashion,” says Zunterer and laughs.
On the contrary: the textiles hanging on meat hooks are reminiscent of stuffed animals.
The artist says she processed memories of her own childhood there.
She was disgusted by a fox fur collar with glass eyes on a friend's grandmother's neck - and also by driven hunts in the fall, where the hunted animals were lined up next to each other on a trailer.
According to the artist, she wanted to use this object to encourage critical thinking about animal husbandry in the fur industry.
She created a softer composition with her textile “doner kebab skewer”.
On the way to studio projects along Landwehrstrasse in Munich, she often passes Turkish snack stands.
Foreign, oriental smells inspired her to create her object.
Fabrics are painted with acrylic paint.
Colorful threads and filling material mix with other fabrics as she emerges from “two-dimensionality” and models a figure.
She is there at work in her studio with a lot of exuberance and passion. In her “home sewing workshop”: “My old Pfaff sewing machine sometimes groans.”
Petra Zunterer studied art education after graduating from high school in Freising Camerloher-Gymnasium at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.
She then gave art and craft lessons at the Carl-Ritter-von-Frisch-Gymnasium in Moosburg, and later at the girls' secondary school of the Archdiocese of Munich-Freising in Erding.
She always tried to convey the sparkling, experimental nature of her art to young people.
She wanted to show that art lessons “can be really cool”.
This was well received by the students.
Even today - the educator and artist has been retired for two years - she is often asked for advice.
And then she knew that she had done everything right: “You have awakened the spark of interest in alternative forms of expression,” she is convinced.
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The exhibition entitled “Extraterrestre” can be seen in the Galerie am Lindenkeller until March 24th.
Maria Martin