"Pendant"

Thomas Reinhold was born in Vienna in 1953. He studied at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna from 1974 to 1978 under Herbert Tasquil. At the end of the 1970s he was the co-initiator of the ‘Young Wild Ones’ in Austria. Reinhold was represented at numerous solo exhibitions in Austria and Germany from the 1980s onwards. His participation in group exhibitions meant he was present, moreover, on the international stage, from Hongkong to Los Angeles. The main focus of his artistic output is on large-format oil paintings, which are marked by their use of colour and space. Reinhold’s process-oriented working method also incorporates the element of chance. His paintings are created on the studio floor by means of pouring. In 2011 Reinhold was awarded the Prize of the City of Vienna for Visual Art. One year previously he had also received a studio scholarship in Shanghai from the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In 2022 he was given the Lower Austrian Cultural Prize for Visual Art. Following this, his works were exhibited in the Lower Austrian Provincial Gallery in Krems. Thomas Reinhold lives and works in Vienna. His paintings are characterised by the masses of paint, both brightly coloured and gloomy, which are placed beside and above one another in abstract fashion, thereby forming a non-representational composition. Reinhold describes his works in his own words, hence giving
unique insight into his artistic creation: ‘The way in which layers are added gradually to painting determines the spatiality perceived. Thus, the view of the painting within the so-called elapsing time seems
timeless, yet all the more spatial: the time for the painting process turns into space. While in the mid-1980s I frantically superimposed transparent layers, and haptic ones too, on top of each other, I now design spatiality with much greater thought and in a more specific way.’