Natur pur

In the organizer's words:

Exhibition by Willi Bunkowski, Hans P. Thienel and Bodo Kessler:

Bogenhausen painter and graphic designer Willi Bunkowski, NordOstKultur e.V. photo chronicler Hans P. Thienel and photographer Bodo Kessler are showing paintings and photographs of character trees.

Willi Bunkowski was born in Russia and studied free graphics and painting in Yekaterinburg before emigrating to Germany in 1972. He founded the "Schwanthaler Kunstschule" in Munich in 1983. His works have been exhibited in Germany and abroad, some of which are on display at the "Modern Museum of Art" in New York. Today he lives and works as a freelance artist in Munich.

His enthusiasm for the beauty of nature cannot be overlooked in his artistic work. He finds his motifs in nature and creates a dialog between the outside and the inside. Viewers experience images that convey a positive attitude towards life. "Some old trees radiate good energy. I can spend hours near such a tree; I then capture its energy and essence with a pencil or paint."

Bogenhausen is a predominantly green residential area. Trees give the city structure and character and counteract increasing sealing. Trees shape the cityscape, improve the urban climate and act as a cooler. Trees are cultural assets, symbols of life. But many trees in Munich are threatened with deforestation due to new construction.

Hans P. Thienel, the photographic chronicler from NordOstKultur e.V., has been tracking down large, characteristic trees in the city district for years.

Bodo Kessler, filmmaker, cameraman and photographer, is interested in trees and forests from a completely different perspective. It is not that of healthy oaks, beeches, firs, pines and spruces in all their majesty and romantic beauty. Instead, his focus is on the "broken wood", the felled wood, the dead wood, the trunks and branches infested by pests, damaged by the forces of nature and ultimately by man. Complex structures can be recognized on the small and smallest surfaces of the bark and the bast underneath, which awaken imaginative associations with abstract, almost painted, wondrous worlds and enchanted mystical landscapes.

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