Description: Tobias Loemke, »Bildermacher« und »Bildbegleiter«
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Being in and with Pictures Picture Maker and Companion in Picture Making To get a clear professional profile precise decisions should have to be made: for example, become either a good artist or a good teacher. Some professions aim to exclude one another, but isn’t it possible that these professional identities, more than any other, can become reciprocally empowering? Doesn`t there always have to be something in between? As well as – not only but also?
My work in painting is based on a concept trusting in the huge variety of relations in between colors, shapes, materials and media. The resulting pictures transgress my boundaries. They fight for clarity and allow me to be playful. In making pictures I answer to formative experiences in practicing piano and violin. My pictures document my search for my own rhythms in between spiritual silence and clusters of everyday sounds, powerful tones and cheeky surprises. In my pictures I work in small units. Put toge
My work as an art teacher is closely related to my work with pictures: as a young person, I wanted to discover my own melodies in order to answer others. Therefore I am convinced that educational processes based on pictures will succeed, meaning teachers offer their students not only a broad foundation for learning knowledge and skills but also for enhancing themselves in focusing and developing their own images. Such a framework offers support and orientation. Students can explore the stable frame, lean on