Chris Reinecke
4 x 3 geschwärzte Dosen
Title: Chris Reinecke: 4 x 3 geschwärzte Dosen, 1995
Year: 1995
Material: Ink on paper
Dimensions: 20 x 14 cm, framed 28 x 21 cm
Edition: Unique, framed
Price: 2.500 €
Chris Reinecke, the observer (a title she has given herself), has been tirelessly surveying our world in all its political, social, intellectual, and poetic dimensions through her artistic practice since the mid-1960s. From the radical beginnings of her work to the present day, her “oeuvre,” despite all formal transformations, has always remained an open process—one through which both artist and viewer engage in a relationship with the world.
The series of cans from 1995 refers on the one hand to works from the 1960s that mockingly yet critically commented on the postwar Germans’ consumer mania and hoarding paranoia, and on the other hand to the analytical and conceptual approaches that characterize her work today.
Text: Sebastian Schemann
Chris Reinecke (*1936 in Potsdam, lives in Düsseldorf) studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1961 to 1965 (after spending several years in Paris) under K.O. Götz and Gerhard Hoehme. From 1967 to 1971, she was, alongside Jörg Immendorff, the key protagonist of the open artist collective LIDL. Recent exhibitions include Kunstverein Hamburg (2021), Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof (2019), LENTOS, Linz (2018), and Ludwig Forum, Aachen (2011).