Das Kann Das Leben Kosten
Absence is a recurring theme in Sopie Reinhold?s work: the left out, unsaid, uninvited. Basic rules of abstraction. To not give it all away. This constraint sets the tone, her underlying mood. Maybe it?s a pattern. It creates a place apart from language. A very clear silence. When there are many motifs, the sense of a pattern is easily lost. Disorder stretches out. Distance helps to make sense of the overview again. Discerning the motif?s repetition ? affirming the pattern ? satisfies some obsessive impulse and fosters a spirit of serenity ? Sophie Reinhold?s paintings consistently demonstrate her astute understanding that her reality cannot be smoothed over, that the experience takes place long before it?s manipulated into form. Her art emerges from a kaleidoscopic multiplicity; not following a formula, always multifaceted. One aspect of the method is salient: the decision to sand a painting, to remove and apply images, reflects an experience of reality tantamount to the wear and tear of everyday life ? ?Das kann das leben kosten± was, as far as I know, the first exhibition to open in Berlin after restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic were relaxed. These paintings, made before the global crisis, stand as a testament to Reinhold?s (appropriately) urgent scrutiny of our jumbled present. Tenzing Barshee00Exhibition: CFA Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Germany (20.05. - 20.06.2020).