EXHIBITIONS

Pinch Me Hard and Soft

Pauline Rintsch

06.28.202408.17.2024

Opening Reception: 28.06.2024, 6–8 PM

YveYANG Gallery is pleased to announce Pinch Me Hard and Soft, the US solo debut of German artist Pauline Rintsch (b. 1995). Akin to the acrobatic anguish in Balthus, Rintsch captures figures with dynamic poses in abstract settings, only magnified with an enigmatic femininity. Her fluid use of oil on paper enlivens uncanny psychological depth to each of her subjects – stale, moist, clunky and alive, transforming mundane feelings into subtle erotics, imperfect scenarios into magical tinkerings. The exhibition text is by Hindley Wang. The exhibition will be on view from June 28 to August 17, 2024, with an opening reception on June 28 from 6–8 PM.

I lived mostly inside a mirror. Two minutes after my birth I had already lost my origins.

—Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (1964)

Pauline Rintsch paints reflections and navels. She looks at herself in the mirror, at her friend in the rearview, at her own belly button and those mystic beginnings finding her in dreams. She also bends her figures in acrobatic contortions, elongates their gazes in longing uncertainty, and confronts them in abrasive environments. The settings are usually vague but particular-like wombs. Fluid and hollow.

 

Pauline Rintsch (b.1995) lives and works in Duesseldorf, Germany. Rintsch received a Meisterschüler diploma from professor Tomma Abts at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Academy of Fine Arts Duesseldorf) in 2023. She is the recipient of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (The German Academic Scholarship Foundation) for 2019–2023. Rintsch had her first solo exhibition at La Felce in Cologne, May 2024.

Opening Reception: 28.06.2024, 6–8 PM
 

Works Exhibited

Pauline Rintsch
Untitled
2024

Underglaze paint on ceramic
28.5 x 20.1 cm
11¼ × 8 in
Pauline Rintsch
Untitled
2024

Oil on paper
28.5 × 20.1 cm
11¼ × 8 in
Pauline Rintsch
Katzenwäsche (cat’s lick and a promise)
2024

Oil on paper
56 × 42 cm
22 × 16½ in
Pauline Rintsch
Untitled
2024

Underglaze paint on ceramic
20.1 x 28.5 cm
8 × 11¼ in
Pauline Rintsch
navel series III
2024

Oil on paper
56 × 42 cm
22 × 16½ in
Pauline Rintsch
Mary’s heartbreak
2024

Oil on paper
56 × 42 cm
22 × 16½ in
Pauline Rintsch
faint (powerlessness)
2023

Oil on paper
100 × 75 cm
39¼ × 29½ in