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Press Release · May 2016 1/2
11 June – 27 August 2016
CHRIS REINECKE
ZEIT UND ARBEIT. MOMENTE
Works from 1965 to 2016
Chris Reinecke, „Animali“ / „Ober- und Unterstadt“, 2008-2016, ink, ink pen drawing, watercolor, pencil
and crayon on Bristol board, multi-piece, 255 x 196 cm
Beck & Eggeling is pleased to present the work of Düsseldorf based artist Chris Reinecke in a
comprehensive, retrospectively structured solo exhibition on the occasion of the artist‘s 80th birthday.
The show, with a focus on the most recent artistic production, brings together paper collages, objects, drawings and
documentary relics of performances from five decades as well as paintings from the 1970ies and early 1980ies.
So far rarely seen, these examples in painting represent an astounding “missing link” in matters of the reception of
Reinecke‘s oeuvre: in the context of the recent large-scale and expansive paper collages, it particularly becomes
apparent how powerful the concurrence of conceptual and painterly aspects is. As the artist matches and interlaces multiple image parts, mostly taken from different contexts and times of origin, temporality and processuality
visualise within the works.
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Press Release · May 2016 2/2
Furthermore a fascinating continuity of her interest in subjects, which determine her work as central themes, begins to show: non-hierarchical, democratic,
anti-authoritarian – in it‘s chronological progress from 1967 on, Chris Reinecke‘s transgressive work, that aims at raising awareness and expanding the
social conciousness, at undermining the traditional behavioural roles of males
and females, and – at times – even at radical politcal changes, is embedded in
the student movement. At the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf, in the procuctive
tension between two most opposite poles (Gerhard Hoehme and Karl Otto
Götz on one side – Joseph Beuys on the other), she soon developes a very
automonous approach to art. From 1968 until 1970 she, together with Jörg
Immendorff and other members of the Lidl-group, works on alternate models
for learning, teaching and working in society.
Chris Reinecke, Schutz gegen Anfassen (mit eingenähter Karte), 1970
Denim fabric drawn on with felt-tip pen and rubber stamped, 20 x 15 cm
Until today, the precise and in the same way exploratory observance – of the social and political space she is
surrounded by, as well as processes in natrual and cultural sciences – sets the focus of her artistic work. Reinecke‘s texts inspiringly contrast the sensitive feel of her objects, which for the most part are made from ephemeral
materials, and in which the variable, flexible, processual uncovers as a possibility of movement within society. The
likewise sensual and conceptual ouevre opens a wide scope of interpretation to the beholder, while it is always
meant to be a proposal, too: for an action, a motion, an effort of one‘s own.
Chris Reinecke – Zeit und Arbeit. Momente,
curated by Dr. Susanne Rennert, will be on view in
Düsseldorf from 11 June until 27 August. Opening
reception will be held on 10 June 2016, 7pm. A
catalogue will be published on the occasion of the
exhibition.
Right: Chris Reinecke, Morula [Zellteilung], 1979
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 99,5 cm
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