Page 45 - Studio Internationa - March 1971

Klaus Rinke Watten—water, swamp, bog Cooling towers into which the water rushes

Marienbad/clear healing waters emitting the Green algae stinking in puddles
born: April 29,1939 spicy fragrance of woodlands
Wattenscheid (Ruhr) Running barefoot through stubbly fields
Watermannsweg 47 Dux/whistling, singing, whipping sound of Aching veins caused by ice cold springs
1945-54 School days shoes gliding across an icy mirror-smooth
Ascertain strength in the school yard surface Sunset awakens sensual yearnings
1954-57 Apprenticeship in Westphalian
An inaccessible weather-worn house mounted
department store Gelsenkirchen. First Waves flowing one into another never ending
on posts in the middle of a lake
confrontation with the class system. (Director,
Drain lines
Personnel Superintendent, Interior Display Feet pushing reeds aside permitting entrance
Manager, Head Supervisor, Deputy Supervisor, to the open sea Whitecaps climbing cliffs
Assistant Supervisor, third year apprentice,
second year apprentice, first year apprentice) A crater containing water and rubbish First consciousness
1957-60 Study
Katernberg/foul water in meter-high Gladiola The trembling of light and heat
The excitement of creating spontaneous art is a
and Chrysanthemum vases. The addition of
beautiful sensation
fresh water produces a nauseating odour The skin burnt golden
1954-66 Wrestle with painting
Recognition of forms through drawing `Sole/warm water pumped from a depth of A white plate sinks in the crystal clear sea
1959-66 Shake out the up-bringing that had 900 metres
been funnelled in Searching months to find the stone
A leech pierces a vein and sucks
1966 Abandon painting
1959-60 Subconscious performances Brown moor water in square water-holes A handful of sand thrown in the moon
1968-69 Consciousness of the performances
Sun, sand, body
Attempting to swim
Movements in nature
Wattenscheid
The black rubber hose makes the garden bloom
Watermannsweg Between above and below water
The brass faucet in the washroom stills thirst
Wattenscheid—water divide The water blooms
there where the flowing water separates Fences deprive freedom
Suction of the deep
Hönnebecke/between the Ruhr and the Summer thunder storms bouncing between
Emscher the Ruhr and the canal Time lapses

Morning sun Dead arm/still standing waters The sea lay behind the city

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