instrumentarium
In the Nave, the artist reactivates ‘l’Instrumentarium’, his installation/performance created in 1985 in the Forum of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The set-up consisted of a presentation of his arsenal of instruments for collecting, measuring and circulating water, taken from his previous performances and installations, through which he gradually built up his own stylistic vocabulary.
“Ever since I started sculpting, I’ve heard people say, ‘What are you doing with all these things you’re using? These buckets, these plumb bobs, these taps? And I’ve always replied that, for me, it’s first and foremost a question of giving things a new awareness, of forgetting what in them confines them to their use value… I’ve also always dreamt of being able to bring together everything I’ve ever made. That’s the main idea behind ‘Instrumentarium’: to stage the results of my ‘work’, to meditate with and through it…”.
This project fulfils one of the objectives of the Nave’s programming: the reactivation of major historical installations from the 1960s to the present day.
klaus rinke
Klaus Rinke is one of the major figures of German and international art. He was a teacher at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Düsseldorf from 1974 to 2005.
Seeking to understand reality in its physical and material dimension, an important part of his work aims at making the key abstract concepts that establish our relationship with the world perceptible: time, space, gravitation.
Treated as a material in itself, water also plays a prominent role in his work; he invokes its energy, its physical laws, and the symbolism of its vital role for his installations and sculptures “into action”.
If Klaus Rinke’s sculpture and performance work is at the frontier of science and art, his graphite paintings and drawings are the fruit of a research on “form”. They combine abstraction and organic reminiscences, and portray a quest for the origin of all things.
In the Nave, the artist reactivates ‘l’Instrumentarium’, his installation/performance created in 1985 in the Forum of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The set-up consisted of a presentation of his arsenal of instruments for collecting, measuring and circulating water, taken from his previous performances and installations, through which he gradually built up his own stylistic vocabulary.
“Ever since I started sculpting, I’ve heard people say, ‘What are you doing with all these things you’re using? These buckets, these plumb bobs, these taps? And I’ve always replied that, for me, it’s first and foremost a question of giving things a new awareness, of forgetting what in them confines them to their use value… I’ve also always dreamt of being able to bring together everything I’ve ever made. That’s the main idea behind ‘Instrumentarium’: to stage the results of my ‘work’, to meditate with and through it…”.
This project fulfils one of the objectives of the Nave’s programming: the reactivation of major historical installations from the 1960s to the present day.
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