Contact > Juan Carlos Bendana-Pinel T > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 P > + 33 (0) 6 14 71 21 81 jc@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com MATTHIAS REINMUTH Gold was used up September 9th > October 14th 2017 4, RUE DU PERCHE 75003 PARIS MARDI > SAMEDI 11H > 19H tél. > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 22 97 fax > + 33 (0) 1 42 74 25 29 mail > galerie@bendana-pinel.com www.bendana-pinel.com
Matthias Reinmuth Gold was used up Exhibition from September 9th to October 14th 2017 A colour that comes from America and which is now running out. Gold is a cliché in itself. It smells of imitation marble and cheap penthouse dreams. Like yacht safaris and glittering express elevators. It wants to be powerful, to draw with fountain pens, to pay with cards, to drip from golden taps and to clean up with golden toilet brushes. Gold is dug out of the deep, dirty earth, shipped half way round the world and stored in deep cellars in dark, steel safes. Gold has skeletons in the closet. Gold is boring, insistent and simply shines. Only silence is golden. But we shouldn t be silent! So what are you doing if you don t have any gold and you don t want to have any, but you would like to make something shine? Compose colours side by side and on top of each other to make them shine and glow and glimmer. Yellow-red, reddish orange, reddish brown next to green and violet, a dark blue that is shimmering from the background and will be woven like silk for kimonos, dense, like pixels flowing in light layers of varnish, like a breath of air in the morning, foggy, in the sky, completely nebulous and whispering from far away as a delicate promise. Intangible transparency of small selective coincidences, a fuming, rousing oracle of Delphi. Colour that is howling like a golden wave from the seventies. A glamour of freedom shouting over the Atlantic. Crying for California Dreaming, the Golden Gate, for Woodstock and Janis Joplin, for lighthouses of freedom and Odyssey in Space. But the question coming up is: what is true, what is real? Matthias Reinmuth Matthias Reinmuth (Heilbronn, Germany, 1974) lives and works in Berlin, Germany SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection) : Werkhalle Wiesenburg Berlin, Germany (2017) «Best Western», Städtische Galerie Bad Wimpfen, Bad Wimpfen, Germany (2015) «eins plus», Oswaldz, Dresden, Germany (2014) «Two nights and one summer», Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2012) «Fifteen men on a dead man s chest», Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2010) «Die Frage nach dem Satzbau», Verwaltungsgericht, Weimar, Germany (2010) «die Schweine wechseln, die Tröge bleiben die gleichen», Büro für Kunst, Dresden, Germany (2006) «Wolken», Kunsthaus Kern, Mahlow, Germany (2002) GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection) : «Mega Bock», Uferhallen Berlin, Germany (2017) Arco, Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Madrid, Spain (2016) «Northbound / Southbound», Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2016) «Germany, mon amour», Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy (2015) «Nicht so contemporary», Kulturfestival Wedding Moabit, Artloft Berlin, Germany (2014) «Tasse weder komma noch fisch», Kunsthalle m3, Berlin, Germany (2014) «Heuriger 013», Austellungraum.at, Vienna, Austria (2013) «1825 Days», Bendana Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France (2014) «Housesalon», Kunsthalle m3, Berlin, Germany (2013) «Triptychon», Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany (2013) «Naked Factory», Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany (2011) «Dirty Fingers», Wiesenburg, Berlin, Germany (2011) «Open Art Space», Projektraum Kunst, Potsdam, Germany (2011) «Color & Style», Kunsthalle m3, Berlin, Germany (2011) «Du willst es doch auch Hase», Kunsthalle m3, Berlin, Germany (2010) «Eine Frage» des Satzbaus, Verwaltungsgericht Weimar, Germany (2010)
colorado, 2016 140 x 200 cm
Olymp, 2017 190 x 165 cm
Alpha, 2017 140 x 120 cm