Frank Hinrichs

My artistic work, painting, is based on the influence of sculpture during my studies. Body-image relationships, transitions and transformations, the breaking up of identities, spatial references and the dissolution of boundaries between artistic genres are core themes. It is above all philosophical...

My artistic work, painting, is based on the influence of sculpture during my studies. Body-image relationships, transitions and transformations, the breaking up of identities, spatial references and the dissolution of boundaries between artistic genres are core themes. It is above all philosophical questions of existence that drive my work in the various groups of works, especially with regard to the medium of painting as body language, trace and memory. Pictorial space and bodily space are dimensions in which I question the phenomenon of painting, often on the wrong track, beyond a reproducing 'peinture': using experiment and chance to track down the uncovering and appearance of forms. The leitmotif of my work is the search for the fleeting in the stable, the transient in the permanent.