Klaus Rinke's Italian Return at Thomas Brambilla Gallery

Klaus Rinke (born 1939 in Wattenscheid, lives between Los Angeles and Austria) returns to Italy with a solo exhibition at Galleria Thomas Brambilla in Bergamo. Titled 'The memories belong to me,' the show features about ten large oil paintings through which the artist explores his relationship with the feminine universe. The obsessive repetition of an archetypal female figure with de Chirico-like traits, present throughout Rinke's work, serves as a mantra to meditate on individual experience and elevate it to universality. Rinke reaffirms his role as a medium between the external world and the individual, similar to his 1970s performances where he used his own body to measure space and time. The exhibition runs until July 30, 2016.