With works by Johannes Bendzulla, Laurenz Berges, Ralf Brög, Rosilene Luduvico, Simone Nieweg, Albrecht Schäfer, Martin Schwenk and Jörn Stoya.
Grasses, shrubs and trees are often associated in our minds with childhood memories, rural surroundings and nature in general. Back then, our view of nature was still relatively unclouded, as damage or destruction was not yet so obvious and we were far from wanting to know what the future held for us.
Over the years, the nature around us has changed dramatically, as has that of distant countries. Visible changes in our immediate environment, images from all over the world and constantly updated knowledge have become anchored in our consciousness and changed our perspective. These changes and expansions are reflected in the artistic approaches of the invited artists and in the media they use. The exhibition is an attempt to span the spectrum from naturalistic representation to reconstructed, interpreted images to free painting and digital illusions.
The motif on the invitation card comes from the freely accessible collection of paintings by Albrecht Dürer, whose work is interesting in several respects in this context.
His watercolour "The Large Piece of Turf" on the invitation card refers to a piece of nature from 1504 and is in no way different from today's meadow and lawn edges. In contrast, the equally well-known motif "Rhinocerus" depicts an animal that most of us today know from photographs, films or visits to the zoo. The painter himself never saw it and interpreted it on the basis of his knowledge and imagination at the time. Even today, many of his motifs are available worldwide thanks to state-of-the-art technology, thus continuing Dürer's idea of making his motifs accessible to everyone. (Source: Petra Rinck Gallery)
