Artists
Reynold Reynolds Born in 1966 in Fairbanks, Alaska, USA | Lives and works in Berlin
Portrait
Reynold Reynolds
Reynold Reynolds’ films create strong images for the transience and fleetingness of life. Often confined locations like an apartment or a single room are symbols of compulsory behavior, the inability to act, and the limits and weaknesses of the human body.
Reynolds turns the property of film to record time on celluloid into the substance of his inquiry. He frequently uses stop-motion or time-lapse photography, slows down, dissects, or speeds up the events depicted. Reynolds creates artificial worlds that are always developing new images for the frailty of human existence.
Reynold Reynolds’ newest work,The Lost(2011–2012), is built around the recently rediscovered and restored footage of a never fully-completed feature film that was shot in Berlin in the 1930s in the style of productions attributable to Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. The shooting began in the early 1930s, but the director was unable to finish the film because of the changing political climate at the time.
On the basis of the discovered scripts, Reynolds is reshooting parts of the film. His working on the film brings a focus to the collapse of German avant garde film brought on by the censorship of the Nazi dictatorship, the ability of history to be reconstructed, and the potential of the medium of film to create temporarily worlds.
Education
| 1995 | Photography and related Media, School of Visual Arts, New York |
| 1991 | Film studies, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| 1991 | Bachelor of Arts in Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
Solo exhibitions (selection)
| 2012 | The Lost: Filmperformances, Galerie Zink, Berlin |
| 2011 |
Reynold Reynolds: Six Pieces, West, Den Haag The collaborations of Reynold Reynolds and Christoph Draeger, Lokal_30, Warschau Labor Berlin 4: Reynold Reynolds; Secrets Trilogy, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin |
| 2010 |
Cuatro Instalaciones de Cine, Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto, Gijon, Spanien Reynold Reynolds, Galerie Zink, Munich |
| 2009 |
Three Installations, Institut fĂĽr Moderne Kunst NĂĽrnberg Six Easy Pieces, Invaliden1, Berlin Burn, Nassauischer Kunstverein Wiesbaden Six not so Easy Pieces, basis e.V., Frankfurt |
Group exhibitions (selection)
| 2011 |
Knotting: Swarm in the Era of Digital Media, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Über die Metapher des Wachstums, Kunstverein Hannover Videonale 13, Kunstmuseum Bonn gehen blühen fließen - Naturverhältnisse in der Kunst, Stadtgalerie Kiel Monanism, opening exhibition, Museum of Oldand New Art, Hobart, Tasmanien, Australia |
| 2010 |
Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp, Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale, Kunst-Werke Berlin Intensif-Station, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen Düsseldorf To the Elements, Goethe-Institut NY, Goethe-Institut Boston As Soon As Possible, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florenz Remote Vision- Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona Unwetter - Video - und Soundinstallation, Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
| 2009 |
Moscow Biennale Berlin 89/09 – Art Between..., Berlinische Galerie Steppenwolf…,Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Ushuaia Argentina, São Paulo |
| 2008 |
A PART APART, Stiftung BINZ39, Zurich 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, China Was Schläft, Syker Vorwerk-Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Syke European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück |