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In the organizer's words:

Art exhibition by Dagmar Aichinger

Duration of the exhibition: 23.11.2024 - 15.12.2024

For over six decades, Dagmar Aichinger has been exploring the effect of textile surfaces and textured paintings on walls and in rooms. During her studies with a focus on textile surface art at the Bielefeld Werkkunstschule from 1961 to 1964 under Professor Thyra Hamann-Hartmann, she came into contact with the graphic, colorful, geometric-abstract surface and structural composition of fabrics inspired by the Bauhaus.

An approach that she continued to pursue in the 1970s to 1990s in the technique of patchwork. Blocks, stripes and geometric shapes are sewn into mosaics, combined with different stitches to create appliqués and embroidered. Aichinger's textile portraits are rarely pure abstractions; the title at the latest leads her back to a figurative or representational order.

One motif that runs through her entire oeuvre is the marine habitat: islands, underwater worlds and their inhabitants. The recently painted molluscs, arthropods, vertebrates and echinoderms are not "based on life". The focus here is not on the realistic depiction of body and form, but on the play of colors combined with fragments of movement. The acrylic paint, applied in delicate glazes or in impasto technique with brushes, painting knives, combs and spatulas, creates iridescent light and shadow effects and tactile textures that make the process of abstraction in the design tangible for the viewer.

The multifaceted exhibition includes tapestries, overall patchwork quilts as well as paintings and drawings from over 50 years.

The art exhibition will be opened with a vernissage on Saturday, 23.11.2024 at 12 noon by the deputy district mayor Vincenzo Copertino. The exhibition opening will be accompanied musically by the guitar duo "Duo Diferente" Nicole Schipplick and Andreas Schlüer (classical guitar). This will be followed by an introduction by Prof. Dr. Mirjam Goller.

We cordially invite you to the opening of this impressive and diverse art exhibition.

The exhibition can be visited Tuesdays to Fridays from 15:00 to 18:00 and Saturdays and Sundays from 12:00 to 17:00.