In our age of talkativeness, there are many good reasons to be silent more often. To stop one’s own communication incontinence and to renounce the permanently demanded communication. People who have noticeable difficulties with language or non-verbal communication do not have this choice. people with autism. They need other ways of expressing themselves anyway – for example with painted pictures and texts. Sort of like: “We can’t speak, but we have a lot to say!”
Works by 16 autistic artists can now be seen in the exhibition “Painting is Hope” in Garching’s community center. The driving force behind the exhibition is the Gautinger art and psychotherapist Brigitte Lobisch, who for many years has been enabling people with autism to open up and express themselves in painting and writing with the help of “supported communication” and “supported painting”. The vernissage will take place on Sunday, November 13th, starting at 2.30 p.m. and twelve of the exhibitors will be present.
“One thing has become clear to me in the many years of my educational and art therapy encounters with people from the autism spectrum,” explains Lobisch, who was born in Gauting in 1948: “The myth of the introverted, insensitive, emotionless person with autism finally needs to be revised! ” She wishes the audience in Garching aha moments: “In the pictures and texts of these 16 painters, get an idea of how much maturity, depth, reflection, warmth of heart, empathy, joy of life and courage there is in each of these neurodiverse people , even if this is not as easy for them to express directly as it is for us neurotypical fellow human beings.”
The exhibition “Painting is Hope” lasts until December 23, on Wednesday, November 16, from 7.30 p.m. there is also an information evening with piano music.