Flow and When the Day Suffices – Art in the District Office Traunstein

Between Mountain Light and Printing Ink: Art that Breathes

The double exhibition by Manuela Federl and Clemens Büntig invites visitors at the District Office Traunstein to an intense art experience: Federl's Chiemgau Alpine report Simply Alpine – When the Day Suffices meets Büntig's Flow – graphic compressions of plant forms. The atmosphere of the exhibition connects documentary photography with experimental printmaking to create a sensual examination of the works.

Alpine Everyday Life as the Poetry of the Real

Federl's photographic series from the Chiemgau and Berchtesgaden Alps focuses on gestures, tools, and layers of landscape. Her imagery oscillates between reportage and contemplative painting with light: gray-green meadows, earth-colored woods, the white of milk cans, the silver of damp morning air. From an art historical perspective, this photography stands in the tradition of social documentary work, expanded by a gentle curation of everyday life. The title When the Day Suffices programs an aesthetic experience of deceleration and presence.

Plants as Soul Landscapes: Printmaking in Flow

Büntig's works translate natural processes into image states: monotypes, embossings, overpaints. Lines branch out, color fields breathe, relief edges break the light. This vocabulary ties into the history of original printmaking and opens a contemporary field between sculpture on paper and painterly graphics. The forms – leaf veins, blades, rhizomes – become symbols of emotional states, a transformation that productively intertwines work analysis and perception theory.

Dialogue of Art Forms: Photography and Printmaking

In the curatorial interplay, a tension arc arises from documentary evidence to intuitive abstraction. Federl's narrative of alpine farming – work, rhythm, community – is expanded by Büntig's Flow into an inner natural space. This juxtaposition enhances cultural education: visitors experience the relationship between motive, material, and technique – from the photographic series to the graphic installation.

Context, Biographies, Reception

Federl, born in 1981 in Trostberg, works as a director, journalist, and photographer; her widely shown documentary film The Game: Play Between Life and Death received broad resonance. Büntig, born in 1968 in San Francisco, trained in Cádiz and Basel, worked in New York for master printer Aldo Crommelynck; his works have been exhibited internationally and included in significant collections. Current media reports and institutions emphasize their strengths: nature-connected imagery, social relevance, and experimental printing techniques.

Conclusion

This exhibition promises calm and intensity at the same time: examinations of works that sharpen the gaze, materials that model the space, motives that combine meaning and sensuality. Anyone wishing to train their perception and rediscover nature as an image should definitely experience this exhibition live.

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• Website: https://www.traunstein.com/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ausstellung-kunst-im-amt

Sources:

• Exhibition Art in the District – District Office Traunstein (official website)
• 'Flow' and 'When the Day Suffices' – Oberbayern Event Portal
• Passauer Neue Presse – Exhibition at the District Office Traunstein
• OVB Online – Portrait of Clemens Büntig