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The protagonists for Oskar Rink's exhibition Gruppensitzung (group session) come together in the 18sqm small and intimate gallery space on Leipzig's Spinnereigelände. In this solo show, the artist from Leipzig presents five works on large canvases, each of which reproduces chairs in single or double portraits. On raw canvas, black and blue contours interact quickly, sketchily and vividly. Rink captures concentrated, brief moments of the idiosyncratically wild chairs and their rapid dynamics which seemingly try to avoid being captured.

Rink's composition is simultaneously …