The artist Neckel Scholtus is known for her innovative media approaches. A caravan can be used as a camera obscura or the historical technique of letterpress printing can be combined with modern digital photography.
Neckel Scholtus is applying precisely this idea to the historic presses of the Kulturhuef Musée in a six-month artist residence. Thus the artist combines Gutenberg's techniques with the technical possibilities of the 21st century.
Neckel Scholtus captures her environment with her camera, clearly focussing on nature and thereby expressing an ecological message. However, themes of reuse, recycling and the consumption of a disposable society are also translated into images. The reuse of raw materials, their recycling, but also the consumer behaviour of a wasteful society are of great concern to her. Neckel Scholtus uses modern laser technology to engrave her photographic works onto wooden panels. These are then printed on paper on the museum's historical printing machines. Neckel Scholtus bridges the seemingly insurmountable differences between analogue and digital and also visually closes the circle of an image of nature (photo) on a natural product (paper).
Furthermore, the artist plays with the material at her disposal. Here, the smooth image of the digital is transferred into the haptic materiality of the printed work, thereby creating a further sensory dimension. For example, the rough texture of the tree bark, which can be sensed in the photographs, is reflected on the paper (in the texture of the colour).
This unusual artist residence is not limited to the Kulturhuef, but also carries its message into the centre of Grevenmacher. Shop windows in the pedestrian zone become an exhibition space and offer the viewer not only one of the impressive works, but also photos of Neckel Scholtus' creative process. Street stickers guide visitors from the pedestrian zone directly into the exhibition in the Kulturhuef Museum.
