As of: February 5, 2024, 12:00 p.m
By: Ulrike Wilms
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Moving welcome: Kristina Wankner (l.) during her tribute to the late artist Wolfgang Sell.
The exhibition in the ASZ runs until the end of February.
© Wilms
An exhibition in the Alten-Service-Zentrum Eching commemorates the artist Wolfgang Sell until February 28th.
It opened on Friday.
Eching
- The viewer quickly notices: It is an extremely versatile and colorful exhibition about the opulent life's work of the Günzenhausen artist Wolfgang Sell, which is currently and posthumously transforming the foyer of the Eching retirement and service center into a temporary art gallery - and will continue to do so until February 28th.
It was opened on Friday on the occasion of the 75th birthday of WOSE, who died in July 2023 and left behind an extensive oeuvre.
Wolfgang Sell was probably quite underestimated during his lifetime
It was and is important to his circle of friends around the Günzenhausen couple Kristina and Simon Wankner to preserve Wolfgang Sell's legacy and to toast him on his birthday together with the family and many guests.
The aim is also to remember the impressive work of an artist and generous person who was probably underestimated during his lifetime.
In collaboration with the ASZ, where Wolfgang Sell has held numerous themed exhibitions, the initiators have succeeded in carefully and exemplarily selecting works from the collection that cover the range of different subjects and cycles.
You can see, admire and buy graphic compositions with great appeal (cycle “Long Live the Constructive”), compositions from nature and geometry (work title “Esothermics and Bestiary”), but also landscapes and portraits.
The attentive viewer will also discover one or two Günzenhauser motifs.
At first glance, some exhibits seem as harmless as children's book illustrations
Quite a few exhibits, which on the surface seem as harmless as children's book illustrations, turn out, upon closer inspection, to be critical, sometimes bitterly angry representations of global problems (such as environmental pollution, the refugee problem), but also of social and (inter)human deficits (bureaucratism, exclusion, xenophobia).
She summarized Wose thematically as his “skeptical images” or under the question “naif?”
His most recent paintings are a little “quieter” and no longer as loud.
The pastel nature and landscape impressions, minimalistic and in a few acrylic colors, radiate a peaceful calm.
When hanging the pictures: Kristina Wankner with an original WOSE ice cream cone.
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After the welcome from ASZ deputy managing director Barbara Hammrich as host, Kristina Wankner paid tribute to the artist and socially minded person Wolfgang Sell in a sensitive and empathetic obituary, “who never let go of the cabaret, painting, drawing and poetry for the rest of his life”.
In 1997, after an eventful fate, WOSE ended up back in Günzenhausen, where he had already lived as a child.
Because of his bilateral leg amputation, he was increasingly cut off from the outside world and lived in extremely modest circumstances, stranded in a dark basement apartment.
A WOSE picture costs 50 euros, with a frame 75 euros
Wankner's final words to the “Wose birthday party” were: “It's nice that you're all here!
Give the pictures a home!” Original woses can be purchased at the ASZ for the duration of the exhibition (unit price 50, with frame 75 euros).
Everyone who knew the deceased agrees: the well-attended event in his honor, including the buffet filled with delicious appetizers, and the exhibition of his work would certainly have been enjoyed by the artist and man, the trained confectioner, later restaurateur and forklift driver Wolfgang Sell.
By the way: Parallel to the ASZ exhibition, some originals “in memoriam WOSE” also decorate the winter garden of the Eching adult education center and the shop windows of the Günzenhausen grocery store.