Portrait of an Overwhelmed Person Through Silent Reproach

Sophie Reinhold

Portrait of an Overwhelmed Person Through Silent Reproach, 2022120 x 110cmSign in to view price
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oil on graphite on marble powder on juteFitzpatrick Gallery
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The artwork features a striking, partially obscured face emerging from a dark, moody background. The colors are muted, with shades of blue and orange accents creating a somber, contemplative mood. The composition is minimalist, drawing the viewer's focus to the central figure and its enigmatic expression. The style suggests a contemporary, expressionistic approach, with the artist's distinctive use of chiaroscuro lighting and gestural brushwork. The work appears to explore themes of identity, illusion, and the human experience, inviting the viewer to ponder the subject's inner life and the broader existential questions it evokes. ...

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Sophie Reinhold
Artist
Sophie Reinhold
German

Sophie Reinhold's work possess a unique quirkiness derived from her appreciation for history, ornamentation, and romantic visual clichés. The paintings depict a playful and tongue-in-cheek quality that flirts with a naive sentimentality, resulting in a witty casualness and enjoyment. The imagery depicted features enchanted ruins and dense foliage, which serve as vehicles for exploring the propagation and transmission of shared folkloric codes and moral principles in fairy tales through whispered narratives. The pictorial content stands out against the white background, preserving the lightness of a sketch. Reinhold uses a technique that involves applying ground marble in multiple layers and selectively removing it from certain areas to carve out specific shapes, resulting in a relief structure that gives the paintings a sculptural quality. She employs various painterly modes, such as rhythmic lines, finger smudges, and smooth surfaces with cutaways that reveal the constructed nature of the image and the textile weave of the canvas. The paintings' familiarity can quickly turn into an uncanny quality due to their oscillation between figuration and abstraction, letter and picture, material and sign, as well as their declaration of the temporariness and latency of meaning. ...

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Portrait of an Overwhelmed Person Through Silent Reproach
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120 x 110cm
Fitzpatrick Gallery
Gallery
Fitzpatrick Gallery
Paris

Established in 2020, Fitzpatrick Gallery is focused on an international program of curated projects in site-specific venues worldwide, and on-site exhibitions at their primary location in Paris, inaugurated in September 2021 in the Marais gallery district at 123 rue de Turenne. They are involved in every level of production with their represented artists, working in close collaboration with institutions, publishing houses, advisory firms, and other partners. Fitzpatrick Gallery builds on the legacy of Freedman Fitzpatrick which was established in 2013 with locations in Los Angeles and Paris. ...

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