BOOKED OUT Workshop for school classes: Impression and imprint
12.12.2024, 12:00
The workshop is booked out
About the artist Heidi Bucher and her art of imprints
For secondary school students (grades 5-9)
with Sabrina Löhr and Lea Pfeiffer
Duration: 2 hours
The artist Heidi Bucher developed an unusual technique to visualise the traces of human life in architecture. She covered the façades and interiors of historic buildings with latex and gauze, allowed them to harden and then removed them from the walls with great physical effort.
This created negative forms, like delicate skins, which moulded the structures and stories of the rooms. The artist was moved by the idea that matter can bind past lives and human stories like molecules from the past. She developed this creative method in order to visualise reality and past history in a tangible form. Heidi Bucher was not only interested in the physical features of the spaces, but also in the experiences and memories that have characterised these places. Which people, voices, thoughts, hopes and worries were inscribed in the walls? What historical events did they bear silent witness to?
The workshop Impression and Imprint aims to explore the artistic technique of the imprint. In this interactive workshop, we will reflect together and find out what traces we ourselves could leave behind for a possible future.
The children and young people will be able to make imprints and experiment with clay and other materials. How can imprints of objects or surfaces be made? What can they tell us about our world?
The workshop will take place in German.
About the workshop series for school classes in the exhibition The Presence of Absence in cooperation with the Institute for Art Education at Justus Liebig University Giessen
The workshops for children and young people are organised in cooperation with the Institute for Art Education at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Under the direction of Tobias Becker, the students of his project seminar offer a rich programme specially developed for the Frankfurter Kunstverein.
The starting point will be individual works of art or exhibition objects from the fields of art, natural history and archaeology. The workshop leaders will familiarise your class with various materials and techniques that illustrate the themes of the exhibition. Through the practical use of materials such as clay, plaster, soot, but also stargazing apps, children and young people are introduced to numerous topics through vivid sensory impressions, through feeling and touching.
The workshops are about learning to read traces and to perceive them as the starting point for imagination and stories, but also for logical reasoning. In the workshops, the students will also creatively design signs and traces themselves in order to experience and reflect on the world that surrounds us.
Our motto is to know the past in order to imagine the future and thus positively change the present.
Further information here.