The pond where everything began
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Klaus Rinke 2008 Australia
Klaus Rinke, The pond where everything began, Charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 370 x 280cm, 2008
Klaus Rinke recent drawings
Rhine•Ruhr•Loire•Danube•Pacific•Connection•Re-Au
RMIT Gallery
Friday 11 July 2008 to Saturday 23 August 2008
Opening Monday 14 July 2008 Gallery Hours:
Mon-fri 11am-5pm
Sat 2-5pm
Exhibition opening Mon 14th July 6-8pm
Klaus Rinke visited Australia for the first time in the late '70s and was moved to begin a series of dense drawings of amorphous organic forms that he called his pre-embryonic diary.
RMIT Gallery supported by the Goethe-Institute Australien is proud to present an exhibition of Klaus Rinke's latest drawings at the gallery.
Opening date: 14 July 2008
Klaus Rinke forged his reputation as a leader of the avant-garde in Germany, using his own body as a measure of space and time and a metaphor for mortality. Later he extended this metaphor to include water: ladling water from the Rhine and all the oceans of the world. He was nicknamed Aquarius as a result. An esteemed art educator he taught for decades at the Düsseldorf Academy before taking up a stint at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles where he explored the phenomenon of duration with scientists and philosophers.
