Rheine. Anyone who believes that artists have to be adults to deal with color and painting techniques in order to create expressive works of art is mistaken. And anyone who thinks that nursery children only ever paint cephalopods or circles and lines is doubly mistaken.
The pre-school children at the AWO kindergarten on Plackenstraße showed everyone. Under the title “What color is water?”, they opened their exhibition in the city library Rheine (formerly Toom-Baumarkt on Osnabrücker Str.). At the same time, there is a media exhibition on the subject of “water”, in which the existing exhibition at endless.muensterland (Walfluken in Salinenpark) has been supplemented with media on the subject of “water”.
But what is so special about the works? The children first took part in a workshop at the LWL Museum of Art and Culture in Münster. Under the working title “Immersed!”, the young artists then explored the element of water and the question “what color is water anyway?” They were inspired by the French artist Yves Klein, for whom the essence of art lay in the purity of the color used. During his lifetime, he therefore made the decision to only use the color blue in his artworks.
He then experimented with pipettes with which the ink was dripped, sprayed and painted onto glass panes. The results of these works show the visual richness that water offers in its entire spectrum. Sometimes cloudy, sometimes clear, sometimes just blue or grey or colored, sometimes calm or effervescent. Anyone who is now curious can view all the works until June 7 during the usual opening hours of the library (in the lending area). It is well worth it.