Creating a mural in Duisburg - Bruckhausen, Dieselstraße, Germany
Realization: June, 1 - 27, 2000

organization: Informationsstelle „Dritte Welt“ des Ev. Kirchenkreises Duisburg -Süd   co-operation: Kindernothilfe Duisburg, DGB - Kreis Region Duisburg / Arbeitskreis Porto Alegre, Entwicklungsgesellschaft Duisburg mbH Artists: Luis Flavio de Lacerda Vitola and Nestor Omar del Pina Salas, both Porto Alegre / Brazil; Eunice Duarte and Wolfgang Pilz, both Duisburg / Germany

Duisburg

The Bruckhausen mural

"Farbe bekennen - ein Wandbildprojekt der Lokalen Agenda 21"
("Confess colour/Follow suit - A Mural Project of the Local Agenda 21")

Duisburg-Bruckhausen

The mural project in the district of Duisburg-Bruckhausen is one of three projects going to be realized in 2000.

Duisburg-Bruckhausen is a quarter with special necessity of renovation. The shape of the quarter is deeply characterized by the Thyssen-Krupp Steel Company. People living in the neighbourhood are exposed to high healthy burdens for instance by the factory's colliery.

The painters working

There are contacts between Duisburg and Porto Alegre since some years. By means of the Local Agenda 21 both cities are able to organize a constructive exchange on many subjects of communal work.

The economic connexions between Brazil, the biggest country of Latin America, and Duisburg are numerous: imports of iron ore, direct investigations but also interests of exportation. (look at the project Porto Alegre)

One aim of the mural project is to invite people to deal with the subjects of the "Local Agenda 21" and with global aspects.

The Brasilian painters

The artists

Luis Flavio de Lacerda Vitola (1972): He is a graphic artist working together with young people and the organization "Febem". Febem is engaged with criminal youngsters. He also works in a local administration project of cultural decentralization.

Nestor Omar del Pina Salas (1954): He was born in Chile but he is a Brazilian. Living in Porto Alegre since 20 years. His background is more academically and he has experience with paintings. He was a master of the "Caxias do Sul University" and already realized some public murals.

Bild: Eunice Duarte

Eunice Duarte (1956) was born in Recife, Brazil. She studied law and arts in Brazil. Her teacher was the Brazilian artist Joao Camera. Since 1978 she intensively works as an artist and realized murals in Brazil as well as in Germany. Eunice Duarte lives and works in Germany since 1991. You can see her work in the internet: www.flammer.de.


Wolfgang Pilz (1957), born in Hamburg / Germany. He studied arts in Duisburg, Stuttgart and Düsseldorf. The teacher of Wolfgang Pilz (master class) was the artist Prof. A. R. Penck. He lives and workes in Duisburg and teaches lithography at the Gerhard-Mercator-University of Duisburg.


Links

City of Porto Alegre: www.portoalegre.rs.gov.br
Kindernothilfe e.V.: www.kindernothilfe.de


Supporters:Funds of the state government Nordrhein-Westfalen (MASSKS); Duisburg is prize-winner of the "Agenda 21"-competition in 1999
Working group of the schools and Agenda 21 in the city of Duisburg
Action network "Sustainable Duisburg"
Coordination agency "Immigration / Foreigners"

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