Location
16 Bd. Royal
L-2449 Luxembourg
October 22 — November 22, 2024
“I am interested in literature, art history, geology, conceptual art, post-war comics, modernism… I find my inspiration in books, on the Internet, and in video games. Greek mythology meets Pacman. It’s not just about history—we live in the present moment, after all.” — Stefan Rinck
Representative of the artist’s sculptural work, the It Owl figure evokes various creatures, drawing inspiration from ancient myths, medieval bestiaries, and Aztec legends, but also, iconoclastically, from pop culture, emojis, and film history. Amusing, strange, and chimerical, Stefan Rinck’s colorful idols blur our contemporary narratives and seem to reconcile seemingly contradictory forms and memories. The artist describes his work as “wild abstraction,” in which history, psychology, rituals, fantasy, magic, aesthetics, and craftsmanship come together to reveal everything we have buried in our subconscious. Technically, his practice is rooted in the ancient tradition of sculpture. His works retain a brutalist aura, revealing all the traces of a “battle” with and against the stone as one gets closer.
The It Owl figure was exhibited at FIAC in 2021 at the Jardin des Tuileries and in Le Havre for “Un été au Havre” in 2023.
