Exhibition

LA VIE DE L' ESPACE Thomas REINHOLD

7 Apr 2022 – 28 May 2022

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 16:00
Sunday
Closed

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"A steady drip, drip, drip" is the name of an album by the American pop group Sparks from the year 2020. A steady drip, drip, drip also plays a role in the artistic creations of the painter Thomas Reinhold, who rarely uses a brush and instead distributes the paint on the canvas via complex, meticulously arranged pourings. By tilting the painting ground, drops and flecks of colour are transformed into streaks that run from top to bottom like threads, structuring the paintings. Yet there are also plane geometric elements in discreet colours, amongst which an egg-yolk yellow, soft violet, and various tones of blue between azure and cobalt are prominent. Precise forms should not be produced, but instead approximations should be generated: "I don't want sterile accuracy!" says Thomas Reinhold.

 All of this is by definition non-objective and, as the artist emphasises, without components of colour symbolism, although after long contemplation of the pictures, including the diptych "Himmel und Hölle" after the well-known folding game, the viewer might gain dreamlike, almost hallucinatory impressions of exotic landscapes. In Reinhold's new works, however - most of which were created in 2021 - the point is not an elaborate play between figuration and the abstract language of colours and forms, but instead an overcoming of traditional painterly concepts of space. He cites the Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck, who conjures up a four-dimensional world, "where the before, the afterwards, and the now are all layered on top of each other like photographic films and always exist contemporaneously." Thomas Reinhold controls the spatialization of the painting in such a manner that he places five or six layers on top of each other in his paintings, so that the viewer "almost in a timeless state is confronted with something that has been made over a long period of time. And it is precisely this phenomenon that one perceives as spatial."

Supplemented by ink paintings, and a five-part photo series from the 1970s that in a sense anticipates certain formal principles in Thomas Reinhold's art, the new paintings deal with bursting open the space-time continuum in which the individual appears to have comfortably established himself. Around an explosive simultaneity, in which the artist believes that he recognizes a Maeterlinckian four-dimensionality. Similar transcendental experiences have also sometimes occurred to him while listening to music: "for example, with late John Coltrane, where the sounds don't skitter around anymore, but appear to stand still. Where one feels something compact, and the music unfolds like architecture in space." (Thomas Miessgang, 2022)

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