Edith Temmel WALDEN, 2024, Monotypie in Farbe
On 15 March, the entry of traditional printing techniques in the Federal Register of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the German UNESCO Commission will be celebrated as Printmaking Day.
kunstGarten participates with a program of Edith Temmel – WALDEN until 11. May
Walden today has a place among the most influential books in American literary history. In pre-Marxist times it was found in many workers’ households, in the 20th century. In the 19th century, it inspired the nature conservation movement as well as the 68 generation. It was also widely recognized outside the United States; for example, Mahatma Gandhi, with his ideal of non-violent resistance and his ascetic lifestyle explicitly referred to Walden. With his utopia, Burrhus Frederic Skinner (Walden Two) already refers to Thoreau in the title, while Rubén Ardila (Walden Tres) and Rolf Todesco (Walden III) refer practically only to Skinner.
A quote from the last chapter of the book gained special fame: “Why this desperate hunt for success, especially in such daring undertakings? If a man doesn’t keep up with his comrades, maybe it’s because he hears another drummer. Let him march to the music he hears, in whatever beat and how far it is. It is not important that a person matures as fast as an apple tree or an oak tree. Shall he make his spring summer?”
From Wikipedia
Edith Temmel (c) Stadt Graz, City of Graz, citizen of the city
Edith Temmel (c) City of Graz, citizen of the city
Edith Temmel was born on 23. August 1942 in Graz, where she still lives and works as a freelance. She began to discover the art of painting at the age of 25 and was trained in the beginnings by the Styrian painter Elga Maly. She attended the painting retreats of Josef Fink, the then rector of the Minorite Culture Center in Graz, where international artist personalities taught her new aspects of her opinion in painting. At the beginning she dealt with the biblical topics, and so several great cycles on the Old Testament were created. The large stained glass windows and commissioned works in the church sector also date from this period. Her works were shown with great success in exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Vienna, Darmstadt, Osnabrück, Tel Aviv, Marburg and Brussels.
More than 50 years ago, Edith Temmel noticed that she saw colors when she listened to music. This fusion of two senses is called by science synesthesia. What makes some people despair has inspired the artist. The Grazer has been using her talent for decades for complex clay paintings. She drives to Vivaldi, Bach, Chopin but also to jazz. Her paintings are simultaneous translations of music into painting. An exhibition with sound figures took place in 1991 at the Museum of Szombathely. In 1996 she learned the art of “Fusing” (glass melting art).
Edith Temmel is the initiator and founding member of the “styrianARTfoundation”, which was founded in 2005. Every year, Styrian artists’s retreats are held at Stift Rein. It is very important for the artist to strengthen the local art scene. Togetherness should be promoted, not the opposition. In 2014, the 10. Edition of the creative meeting in Stift Rein. A special concern within this association is the promotion of young Styrian artists.
For the auxiliary bishop Franz Lackner, Edith Temmel designed an artistic house in silk-malting technique for his appointment as Bishop of Salzburg, which shows a blue spark of birds on a green background and represents the bird sermon of St. Francis of Assisi. She also designed mass robes for John Paul II and Pope Benedict.
https://www.graz.at/cms/beitrag/10265298/7772794/Edith_Temmel.html
Monotypy is a printing process in which only a single copy – a unique piece – can be printed, a print graphic that combines painting and graphics, since paint is applied directly to a smooth surface. The motif is created by applying paint and reducing it, or drawing in the paint application and then removed from the carrier material by placing a paper and pressing it.