Q2 wins 1st prize in the "Art from Schools" competition. Impressive work from E2 too.
From the outside it looks rather modest, the work "Zeit rinnt". You could almost overlook it as it stands there in the corner, wonder at it for a moment and then carelessly walk on. But if you step closer, you can read a note that you didn't notice at first: "Call customer service, fridge is dripping". And indeed, a steady dripping sound can be heard from inside .... Finally, you notice that the one circular hole glows blue from the inside and you look inside....
What can be seen inside impressed not only curious onlookers, but also a top-class art jury. Yasmin Bangemann, Philip Oehmichen and Benjamin Zundel, the Q2 students of our grammar school, have now won the "Art from Schools" competition with "Zeit rinnt". Under the guidance of Miriam Marty, the three created an unusual and urgent beacon against climate change for the competition theme "Crazy".
"The motif of the polar bear on the ice floe as a symbol of climate change, which is already etched in our visual memory, inspired the pupils to continue working with it and to explore the question of how this image, which is used thousands of times in the media, could be presented in an interesting and unusual way," says Marty after the award ceremony for "Zeit rinnt", which unfortunately had to take place without pupils and visitors this year.
According to various versions by the three students, the idea of bringing the urgent need for more climate protection closer to the viewer in an everyday situation and confronting them with it at the same time was convincing. The dripping sound of the refrigerator as an everyday object already triggers initial unease. When the fridge stops working and drips, the small domestic "catastrophe" is close at hand. "Through the peephole, the view inside then falls on a seemingly very distant scenario and thus on a very distant problem. The urgency of the global problem becomes more tangible and real through the personal everyday problem, Marty summarizes the students' thoughts.
Crazy proclamation
With "The Annunciation to Mary - "Crazy!" ....damals wie heute" by Vincent Michel, Felix Juchem, Moritz Oberwinter, JP. Petri, Jeremy Snocken from class E2, Phorms Steinbach was also represented in the competition with a second extremely challenging work. "By working on the development of the spatial representation using examples of the "Annunciation to Mary", the idea developed to allow time to continue and to "shift" time into the present. From the outside, still very classically in gold and Mary's blue and white lily, the five students moved the scene inside the cube, now into a subway station and digitally incorporated the quote from the Gospel of Luke into the display board, transporting it into the artistic "now". The modern Mary, a small model figure dressed in red and blue on the subway platform, now appears energetic and self-confident in contrast to the depictions in the old masterpieces presented around the cube. Today, one would probably simply say, "That's crazy!".
Winning first prize is already the second success for an art class at Phorms-Steinbach. Last year, Miriam Marty and her current class 8a won the "Art from Schools" competition.
The prize money of 500 euros from the Gerning Foundation is intended for the further promotion of art lessons, for example for art workshops and special purchases. This year's two sixth form art teams had already agreed that, if they were lucky, they would attend an interesting art workshop together! Everyone is looking forward to it!
