ARTISTS
Stefan Rinck: Early Birds and Late Night Lizards
Nino Mier Gallery, New York is thrilled to announce Early Birds and Late Night Lizards, our second solo exhibition by the Berlin-based sculptor Stefan Rinck. Known for his playful and mischievous sculptures of animals and chimeras, Rinck expands his repertoire of large- and small-scale creatures chiseled with diabase, sandstone, marble, quartzite, and limestone in a series of new works on view from November 4 鈥� December 16, 2023.
Rinck鈥檚 new suite of sculptures experiment with our gaps in knowledge of dinosaurs. Drawn to the expansive imagination and play required in reconstructing what dinosaurs might have looked like, Rinck cites what little evidence we have of their forms and habits as his point of departure. The resulting cast of new reptilian and avian creatures bear varying degrees of resemblance to more commonplace illustrations of dinosaurs found in television and film but retain a pop cultural emphasis on archetypes and amusement.
Rather than present his dinosaurs as slobbering, ravenous predators, Rinck infuses them with human affects such as bemusement, indifference, and disapprobation. Some heavy-lidded figures seem bored to tears, while others grip their waists with sass. Yet others are entirely contemporary, bearing accessories like headphones. For over three centuries, we have speculated about the lives of the dinosaurs, attempting time and again to imagine their circumstances of life. For Rinck, the dinosaur is an avatar 鈥� the endeavor to understand it tells us as much about the extinct species as it tells us about our own.
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Nino Mier Gallery, New York is thrilled to announce Early Birds and Late Night Lizards, our second solo exhibition by the Berlin-based sculptor Stefan Rinck. Known for his playful and mischievous sculptures of animals and chimeras, Rinck expands his repertoire of large- and small-scale creatures chiseled with diabase, sandstone, marble, quartzite, and limestone in a series of new works on view from November 4 鈥� December 16, 2023.
Rinck鈥檚 new suite of sculptures experiment with our gaps in knowledge of dinosaurs. Drawn to the expansive imagination and play required in reconstructing what dinosaurs might have looked like, Rinck cites what little evidence we have of their forms and habits as his point of departure. The resulting cast of new reptilian and avian creatures bear varying degrees of resemblance to more commonplace illustrations of dinosaurs found in television and film but retain a pop cultural emphasis on archetypes and amusement.
Rather than present his dinosaurs as slobbering, ravenous predators, Rinck infuses them with human affects such as bemusement, indifference, and disapprobation. Some heavy-lidded figures seem bored to tears, while others grip their waists with sass. Yet others are entirely contemporary, bearing accessories like headphones. For over three centuries, we have speculated about the lives of the dinosaurs, attempting time and again to imagine their circumstances of life. For Rinck, the dinosaur is an avatar 鈥� the endeavor to understand it tells us as much about the extinct species as it tells us about our own.
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