James Reineking

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untitled (for Leo) (1996), Street of Sculptures (St. Wendel)

James Reineking (born October 6, 1937 in Minot , North Dakota , † August 25, 2018 ) was an American sculptor and draftsman .

Life

James Reineking studied at various universities in the USA and received several scholarships. In 1967 he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts. He took on teaching positions at various US universities and went to New York in 1970. Since 1980 he lived permanently in Germany, initially in Cologne. From 1990 to 2003 he was a professor for sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . Reineking lived and worked in Munich .

In 1970 he exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , and in 1972 at the Whitney Biennale , New York. In 1977 Reineking was invited to the Skulptur.Projekte Münster and documenta 6 , Kassel. He had his first major institutional solo exhibitions (each with a catalog) in 1980 at the Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena (California) , and together with the American painter Robert Mangold at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Since then, numerous exhibitions have followed - in addition to California, Dublin, Aalborg, Brussels and Humlebaek - in Germany, including in the Kunsthalle Hamburg (1982), in the Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg (1985), in the Kunsthalle Bremen (1986), in the Wilhelm -Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (1987), the 37th annual exhibition of the Deutscher Künstlerbund in the Kunsthalle zu Kiel (1989), in the Museum St. Wendel (2005), in the Kunsthalle Mannheim (2008), in the Haus der Kunst, Munich ( 2008) and regularly in the Rupert Walser Gallery, Munich.

James Reineking was a member of the German Association of Artists from 1983 . He took part in the DKB annual exhibitions in 1983 (Berlin, Martin-Gropius-Bau ), 1984 (Frankfurt, Historisches Museum ), 1989 (Kiel, Kunsthalle Kiel ) and 1993 (Dresden, Albertinum ).

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A recurring theme in Reineking's work since 1971 is that sculptures are created out of a single sheet of steel - usually in the form of a rectangle; this is cut, bent, the parts rolled if necessary and cleverly rearranged. This creates an amazingly complex, three-dimensional sculpture from the simple, two-dimensional initial shape in just a few steps. The recipient in front of it strives to mentally push or bend the parts back to the original, two-dimensional whole and to understand the manufacturing process. Once he has deciphered the sculpture in this way, he will no longer see the complex multi-part structure without considering the unifying whole. Nice examples of this kind are the works Dislocator in Essen and Synclasticon in Münster.

James Reineking's works bring James Reineking closer to conceptual art (such as, for example, Untitled (for Leo) ), Minimal Art (such as, e.g., touching ) and concrete art (such as, e.g., interior Outside-next ).

The work without a title (for Leo) is at the highest point of a small hill on the street of the sculptures (St. Wendel) . Reineking starts from the geographical situation on site: on a topographical map he finds the head of the hill represented by an elliptical contour line. A dead straight line runs diagonally through this ellipse - a property boundary. Reineking takes this as an opportunity to cut through an elliptical, 40 cm thick sheet of steel as well. He then divides one half into two parts and the other into three parts. He stacks the five pieces that he receives in such a way that they lie on top of one another on one side cut edge on cut edge: in this way they illustrate the borderline that is not visible in the landscape.

The work Touching , Schloss Morsbroich , thrives on the contrast between the straight sheet steel on the one hand and the sheet steel of the same length bent into a spiral on the other. She thus illustrates how, with the help of the third dimension, a rectangle can be turned into a graceful shape that even has a passage. The way in which the two parts are joined together, in turn, allows a movement from one end to the other of the steel strip to be felt, which is deflected. A movement that both parts do not radiate individually.

During the work Inside-Outside- Side in Marl , the viewer becomes a contributor to the work of art when he recognizes a circle where actually only three individual parts are present. About the tension between the imaginary circle and the segments in a similar work, Circular-Rune (1974), which is cut out of a square steel plate, Max Imdahl writes: "The conditioned is - without ever ceasing to be the conditioned - at the same time that Conditional. "

In Kempen, James Reineking used the floor plan of the historic old town and divided it into seven individual parts along its main traffic axes. He then stacked these individual parts on top of one another to make a sculpture (2002).

His last major work, Archimedes Nightmare , was installed in Erlangen in 2012. He managed to find a new design language that can be found in the smaller Precarious from 2014.

James Reineking is represented with works in public spaces in numerous German cities, including Marl, St. Wendel, Essen, Münster, Kempen, Leverkusen, Erlangen and Langenhagen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ James Reineking's obituary notice. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Süddeutscher Verlag , August 27, 2018, accessed on August 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ From the barracks to the university ( Memento of the original from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Fulda University of Applied Sciences  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fh-fulda.de
  3. ↑ James Reineking , eART.de
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Exhibitions since 1951 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 16, 2015)
  5. ↑ Rena Karaoulis: The Street of Sculptures - From the St. Wendel Sculpture Symposium to the Street of Peace in Europe. Verlag St. Johann, Saarbrücken 2005, p. 132.
  6. ↑ Hanne Zech (Ed.): 66-03 - Works from the Lafrenz and Reinking collections . Weserburg Museum for Modern Art, Bremen 2007.
  7. ↑ James Reineking: TAL-Tilt , sculpture park "In the valley"

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SURNAME Reineking, James
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Minot
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2018