Pinch Me Hard and Soft, a solo exhibition of German artist Pauline Rintsch has just opened at YveYANG.
This marks Rintsch’s first solo exhibition in New York. 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. Exhibition text is by Hindley Wang.
Pauline Rintsch paints with a lucidity under the veneer of delirium, desires delivered as distortions,
beginnings effaced like doomed ends. With spontaneity and sedimentation, these paintings liken to archaic preservations of a life palpitating with immediacy. A vision of modernity ripe with mystery, enigma bewildered by banality. In a sleight of hand, Rintsch turns agony into effaced pleasures, ennui into quiet marvels, reveling in an incompleteness that is nothing short of a certain sorcery: undressing by the river, shirt immersing the head, hanging on, coming undone. — Hindley Wang, June 2024.
Pauline Rintsch, Pinch Me Hard and Soft, 29th June – 17th August 2024 YveYANG
Exhibition text is by Hindley Wang. All images © YveYang
About the artist
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.
