Dec 7, 2024 – Feb 23, 2025
Sophie Reinhold
True Listening, 2019
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True Listening, 2019
Oil on marble powder on jute
80 × 60 cm
Unique, signedPrice on request
Sophie Reinhold’s works oscillate between painterly restraint and precise reflections on her environment. Rather than grand gestures, she prefers subtle and playful approaches that continually open the viewer to new perspectives on the medium. A distinctive feature of her art is the use of marble powder as a primer on her canvas. This technique gives the surface a grainy, stone-like texture and adds a sculptural dimension to the paintings. Reinhold’s work often incorporates classical iconography and mythological themes, with a sculptural quality that emphasizes and contrasts satirical interpretations of well-known pictorial motifs. In True Listening (2019), Sophie Reinhold transforms an everyday scene at the dining table into a humorously bizarre situation. In it, she gives the cat Meryl Streep’s eyes, which – according to Reinhold – looks over the scene with an expression of utter dispassion, as if to say: “Look at this depressed man.”